Topological strings, field theories and symmetric quivers

Speaker(s)

Piotr Sułkowski

Affiliation

FUW

Language of the talk

English

Date

May 28, 2025, 10:15 a.m.

Room

room 4070

Seminar

Seminar Algebraic Topology

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Topological or supersymmetric (Seiberg-Witten-like) field theories in various dimensions can be engineered by topological string theory on suitable Calabi-Yau manifolds (with a choice of lagrangian submanifolds), so that string amplitudes encode quantities associated to these field theories. Mathematically, these quantities are identified with various invariants, such as knot invariants, Donaldson-Thomas (or BPS) invariants, etc. I will review these relations and their (recently found and currently studied) relations to symmetric quivers.

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