Black holes, q-deformed 2d Yang–Mills, and non-perturbative topological strings
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Aganagic, Mina
Ooguri, Hirosi
Saulina, Natalia
Vafa, Cumrun
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Aganagic, Mina, Hirosi Ooguri, Natalia Saulina, and Cumrun Vafa. 2005. “Black Holes, Q-Deformed 2d Yang–Mills, and Non-Perturbative Topological Strings.” Nuclear Physics B 715 (1–2): 304–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.02.035.Abstract
We count the number of bound states of BPS black holes on local Calabi-Yau three-folds involving a Riemann surface of genus g. We show that the corresponding gauge theory on the brane reduces to a q-deformed Yang-Mills theory on the Riemann surface. Following the recent connection between the black hole entropy and the topological string partition function, we find that for a large black hole charge N, up to corrections of O(e(-N)), Z(BH) is given as a sum of a square of chiral blocks, each of which corresponds to a specific D-brane amplitude. The leading chiral block, the vacuum block, corresponds to the closed topological string amplitudes. The subleading chiral blocks involve topological string amplitudes with D-brane insertions at (2g - 2) points on the Riemann surface analogous to the Omega points in the large N 2d Yang-Mills theory. The finite N amplitude provides a non-perturbative definition of topological strings in these backgrounds. This also leads to a novel non-perturbative formulation of c = 1 non-critical string at the self-dual radius.Terms of Use
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