This talk is an introduction to the work of Witten on physical
approaches to knots, especially based on hep-th 1101.3216.
Classical approaches to the Jones polynomial are based on various
combinatorial constructions which have the downside of not...
In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll
explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert,
which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your
world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...
In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll
explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert,
which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your
world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...
Continuing from February 14, I will attempt to explain
Costello's set up of the problem of perturbative quantization of a
gauge theory in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, thus allowing us
to formulate the main results of Costello and Li.
