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BPS invariants of the projective plane and modular forms

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Speaker: 
Jan Manschot
Affiliation: 
MPI
Date: 
Wed, 09/11/2011 - 15:45 - 16:45
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

BPS invariants capture topological invariants of moduli spaces of
sheaves. After a brief review of BPS invariants of vector bundles over
curves, I'll discuss generating functions of BPS invariants of semi-stable
sheaves on the projective plane and its blow-up. These generating functions
transform as (mock) modular forms, which is a manifestation of the physical
electric-magnetic duality.
 

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