Les Houches lectures on matrix models and topological strings

Details Les Houches lectures on matrix models and topological strings Les Houches lectures on matrix models and topological strings

2004-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410165v3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

63 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections

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In these lecture notes for the Les Houches School on Applications of Random Matrices in Physics we give an introduction to the connections between matrix models and topological strings. We first review some basic results of matrix model technology and then we focus on type B topological strings. We present the main results of Dijkgraaf and Vafa describing the spacetime string dynamics on certain Calabi-Yau backgrounds in terms of matrix models, and we emphasize the connection to geometric transitions and to large N gauge/string duality. We also use matrix model technology to analyze large N Chern-Simons theory and the Gopakumar-Vafa transition.

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