Les Houches lectures on non-perturbative topological strings
arXiv:2411.16211 · doi:10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.112
Abstract
In these lecture notes for the Les Houches School on Quantum Geometry I give an introductory overview of non-perturbative aspects of topological string theory. After a short summary of the perturbative aspects, I first consider the non-perturbative sectors of the theory as unveiled by the theory of resurgence. I give a self-contained derivation of recent results on non-perturbative amplitudes, and I explain the conjecture relating the resurgent structure of the topological string to BPS invariants. In the second part of the lectures I introduce the topological string/spectral theory (TS/ST) correspondence, which provides a non-perturbative definition of topological string theory on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds in terms of the spectral theory of quantum mirror curves
59 pages, 12 figures; v2: corrections and comments added; v4: further corrections, references added, to appear in SciPost lecture series