TH String Theory Seminar

On topological M-theory

Name: On topological M-theory
Start: 2005-10-04T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2005-10-04T15:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Alessandro Tanzini (SISSA, Trieste)

Tuesday 4 Oct 2005, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

TH Auditorium

CERN

Description

We describe a topological theory for membranes on G₂-manifolds. The theory is localized on associative submanifolds. The bosonic part of the action is the standard membrane theory in a particular gauge. On M x S¹ the theory naturally reduces to the standard A-model for topological strings on Calabi-Yau manifolds and to the membrane theory localized on special Lagrangian submanifolds.