Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-06-13
JHEP 0704:004,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
43 pages; v2: small clarification, typos corrected, reference added; v3: exposition improved, typos corrected; v4: discussion
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/004
We calculate the topological string partition function to all genus on the conifold, in the presence of branes. We demonstrate that the partition functions for different brane backgrounds (smoothly connected along a quantum corrected moduli space) can be interpreted as the same wave function in different polarizations. This behavior has a natural interpretation in the Chern-Simons target space description of the topological theory. Our detailed analysis however indicates that non-perturbatively, a modification of real Chern-Simons theory is required to capture the correct target space theory of the topological string. We perform our calculations in the framework of a free fermion representation of the open topological string, demonstrating that this framework extends beyond the simple C^3 geometry. The notion of a fermionic brane creation operator arises in this setting, and we study to what extent the wave function properties of the partition function can be extended to this operator.
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