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We embed the large N Chern-Simons/topological string duality in ordinary superstrings. This corresponds to a large N duality between generalized gauge systems with N = 1 supersymmetry in 4 dimensions and superstrings propagating on non-compact Calabi-Yau manifolds with certain fluxes turned on. We also show that in a particular limit of the N = 1 gauge theory system, certain superpotential terms in the N = 1 system (including deformations if spacetime is non-commutative) are captured to all orders in 1/N by the amplitudes of non-critical bosonic strings propagating on a circle with self-dual radius. We also consider D-brane/anti-D-brane system wrapped over vanishing cycles of compact Calabi-Yau manifolds and argue that at large N they induce a shift in the background to a topologically distinct Calabi-Yau, which we identify as the ground state system of the Brane/anti-Brane system. August

Two dimensional quantum Yang-Mills theory is reexamined using a non-abelian version of the Duistermaat-Heckman integration formula to carry out the functional integral. This makes it possible to explain properties of the theory that are inaccessible to standard methods and to obtain general expressions for intersection pairings on moduli spaces of flat connections on a two dimensional surface. The latter expressions agree, for gauge group SU(2), with formulas obtained recently by several methods. This paper will be devoted to a renewed study of two dimensional Yang-Mills theory without matter, a system which can be easily solved [1] and has been extensively studied [2–10]. Yet we will see that there is still much to say about this supposedly “trivial ” system. To state our result in a nutshell, we will explain (in

Let Mg,n be the nonsingular moduli stack of genus g, n-pointed, Deligne-Mumford stable curves. For each marking i, there is an associated cotangent line bundle Li → Mg,n with fiber T ∗ C,pi over the moduli point [C, p1,...,pn]. Let ψi = c1(Li) ∈ H ∗ (Mg,n, Q). The integrals of products of the ψ classes

In these lecture notes we review the various relations between intersection theory on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, integrable hierarchies of KdV type, matrix models, and topological field theory. We focus in particular on the question why matrix integrals of the type considered by Kontsevich naturally appear as τ-functions of integrable hierarchies related to topological minimal models.

We describe a formalism based on quantization of quadratic hamiltonians and symplectic actions of loop groups which provides a convenient home for most of known general results and conjectures about Gromov-Witten invariants of compact symplectic manifolds and, more generally, Frobenius structures at higher genus. We state several results illustrating the formalism and its use. In particular, we establish Virasoro constraints for semisimple Frobenius structures and outline a proof of the Virasoro conjecture for Gromov – Witten invariants of complex projective spaces and other Fano toric manifolds. Details will be published elsewhere.

This paper is a continuation of our previous paper [RT]. In [RT], among other things, we build up the mathematical foundation of quantum cohomology ring on semi-positive symplectic manifolds.

We develop a "higher genus" analogue of operads, which we call modular operads, in which graphs replace trees in the definition. We study a functor F on the category of modular operads, the Feynman transform, which generalizes Kontsevich's graph complexes and also the bar construction for operads. We calculate the Euler characteristic of the Feynman transform, using the theory of symmetric functions: our formula is modelled on Wick's theorem. We give applications to the theory of moduli spaces of pointed algebraic curves.

1.1. Topological classification of ramified coverings of the sphere. For a compact connected genus g complex curve C let f: C → CP 1 be a meromorphic function. We treat this function as a ramified covering of the sphere. Two ramified coverings (C1; f1), (C2; f2) are called topologically

Abstract. We compute the genus one correction to the integrable hierarchy describing coupling to gravity of a 2D topological field theory. The bihamiltonian structure of the hierarchy is given by a classical W-algebra; we compute the central charge of this algebra. We also express the generating function of elliptic Gromov- Witten invariants via tau-function of the isomonodromy deformation problem arising in the theory of WDVV equations of associativity. 1 1