Khovanov-Rozansky Homology and Topological Strings

Gukov, Sergei and Schwarz, Albert and Vafa, Cumrun (2005) Khovanov-Rozansky Homology and Topological Strings. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 74 (1). pp. 53-74. ISSN 0377-9017. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160511-085302183

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Abstract

We conjecture a relation between the sl(N) knot homology, recently introduced by Khovanov and Rozansky, and the spectrum of BPS states captured by open topological strings. This conjecture leads to new regularities among the sl(N) knot homology groups and suggests that they can be interpreted directly in topological string theory. We use this approach in various examples to predict the sl(N) knot homology groups for all values of N. We verify that our predictions pass some non-trivial checks.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11005-005-0008-8	DOI	Article
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11005-005-0008-8	Publisher	Article
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412243	arXiv	Discussion Paper

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© Springer 2005. Received: 21 March 2005. Dedicated to the memory of F.A. Berezin. We would like to thank D. Bar-Natan, R. Dijkgraaf, M. Gross, K. Intriligator, A. Kapustin, M. Khovanov, A. Klemm, M. Mariño, H. Ooguri, J. Roberts and D. Thurston for useful discussions. S.G. would also like to thank the Caltech Particle Theory Group for kind hospitality. The work of A.S. is supported by NSF grant DMS-0204927. This work was conducted during the period S.G. served as a Clay Mathematics Institute Long-Term Prize Fellow. S.G. is also supported in part by RFBR grant 04-02-16880. The work of C.V. is supported in part by NSF grants PHY-0244821 and DMS-0244464.

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
NSF	DMS-0204927
Russian Foundation for Basic Research	04-02-16880
NSF	PHY-0244821
NSF	DMS-0244464
Clay Mathematics Institute	UNSPECIFIED

Subject Keywords:

knots, quantum group invariants, knot homology, topological strings, BPS states

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MSC (2000):57M25, 57M27, 18G60, 18E30, 14J32, 14N35, 81T30, 81T45.

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Ruth Sustaita

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11 May 2016 16:48

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