TH String Theory Seminar

Landau-Ginzburg theory and open topological strings

by Wolfgang Lerche (CERN-PH/TH)

→ 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.