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Quaternionic geometry, supersymmetric black holes and topological string theory
Mathematical Physics| Speaker: | Andrew Neitzke, Princeton |
| Location: | 0 MSB |
| Start time: | Fri, Apr 13 2007, 3:10PM |
Description
Supersymmetric black holes and topological string theory have so far been
studied using the tools of special Kahler geometry. I will describe some
indications that quaternionic Kahler geometry also has an important role to
play in both these subjects: for black holes it provides a compact
description of the classical solutions as well as a naive quantization, and
for topological strings it seems to be related to the holomorphic anomaly
equation and to the conjectures of Ooguri-Strominger-Vafa.