Calabi-Yau Crystals from Chern-Simons Gauge Theory
Speaker:
Takuya Okuda, California Institute of Technology
Date and Time:
Friday, January 14, 2005 - 2:30pm to 3:10pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We propose new crystal melting models whose statistical partition functions are A-model amplitudes of the resolved conifold, with or without D-branes. The crystal is bounded by two walls whose distance corresponds to the Kahler modulus of the geometry. These statistical models are derived, via geometric transition, from Chern-Simons theory on the three-sphere in a novel matrix model formulation.