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Published 2012 | public
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Chapter 6. Lectures on Topological String Theory

Abstract

In string theory, one typically studies em beddings of the string worldsheet E (which is a Riemann surface) into a 10-dimensional manifold of the form X : Σ → R^(1,3) × M, with M a compact 6-dimensional manifold. In the following, we will restrict our attention to the study of supersymmetric sigma models onto the 6 compact dimensions. In particular, we will assume M to be a Calabi-Yau threefold so that the theory possesses N = (2, 2) worldsheet superconformal symmetry.

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© 2012 Springer. I would like to thank the organizers of the summer school "Strings and Fundamental Physics" for the opportunity to give this set of lectures and for their hospitality. I am also grateful to Michael Kay and Daniel Plencner for helping with this manuscript.

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