B-Model Gromov-Witten Theory

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Clader, Emily (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ruan, Yongbin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Trends in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Algebraic geometry.; Mathematical physics.; Algebraic Geometry.; Mathematical Physics.

This book collects various perspectives, contributed by both mathematicians and physicists, on the B-model and its role in mirror symmetry. Mirror symmetry is an active topic of research in both the mathematics and physics communities, but among mathematicians, the "A-model" half of the st...

Table of Contents:

• Mirror symmetry constructions
• The B-model approach to topological string theory on Calabi-Yau n-folds
• Geometric quantizations with applications to Gromov-Witten theory
• Some classical/quantum aspects of Calabi-Yau moduli
• The total ancestor potential in singularity theory
• Lecture notes on bihamiltonian structures and their central invariants.