Landau-Ginzburg theory and open topological strings
by
Wolfgang Lerche (CERN-PH/TH)
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Europe/Zurich
TH Auditorium (CERN)
TH Auditorium
CERN
Description
I will review the LG approach to describe B-type D-branes. It nicely ties together abstract mathematical notions with a very concrete physical picture, and allows us to do explicit computations of correlation functions, respective exact instanton-corrected effective superpotentials.