5 papers
Planar diagrams and Calabi-Yau spaces
Frank Ferrari
Large N geometric transitions and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture suggest a deep relationship between the sum over planar diagrams and Calabi-Yau threefolds. We explore this correspo…
Four dimensional non-critical strings
Frank Ferrari
This is a set of lectures on the gauge/string duality and non-critical strings, with a particular emphasis on the discretized, or matrix model, approach. After a general discussion…
Non-perturbative aspects of (supersymmetric) gauge theories
Frank Ferrari
At an elementary level, we present some non-perturbative aspects of non-abelian gauge theories in four dimensional space-time. Some rigorous results have been obtained in the frame…
Exact Multiplets of Spontaneously Broken Discrete Global Symmetries: the Example of Susy QCD
Adel Bilal, Frank Ferrari
In these notes, we emphasize the rôle of spontaneous broken global discrete symmetries acting on the moduli space of susy Yang-Mills theories and show how they can be used, t…
On the Quantization of Abelian Gauge Field Theories on Riemann Surfaces
F. Ferrari
In this paper general abelian gauge field theories interacting with matter fields are quantized on a closed and orientable Riemann surface . The approach used is that of small p…