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Givental quantization procedure and computation of Gromov-Witten invariants by topological recursion

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Speaker: 
Nicolas Orantin
Datum: 
Don, 27/11/2014 - 15:00 - 16:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

Following an inductive procedure developed in the setup of random matrices, it is possible to solve many problems of enumerative geometry with a unique formula called topological recursion. In particular, this procedure allows to compute higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants of some manifolds in terms of a mirror partner. In this talk, I will present this procedure and show that, in some particular cases, it is equivalent to a quantization formalism developed by Givental for expressing the potential of a semi-simple cohomological field theory in terms of KdV tau functions. This correspondence explains the universality of this procedure for computing Gromov-Witten invariants.

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