Aganagic, MinaKlemm, AlbrechtMarino, MarcosVafa, Cumrun2019-09-222004Aganagic, Mina, Albrecht Klemm, Marcos Marino, and Cumrun Vafa. 2004. “Matrix Model as a Mirror of Chern-Simons Theory.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2004 (2): 010–010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/010.1029-84791126-6708http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41385017Using mirror symmetry, we show that Chern-Simons theory on certain manifolds such as tens spaces reduces to a novel class of hermitean matrix models, where the measure is that of unitary matrix models. We show that this agrees with the more conventional canonical quantization of Chern-Simons theory. Moreover, large-N dualities in this context lead to computation of all genus A-model topological amplitudes on toric Calabi-Yau manifolds in terms of matrix integrals. In the context of type-IIA superstring compactifications on these Calabi-Yau manifolds with wrapped D6 branes (which are dual to M-theory on G(2) manifolds) this leads to engineering and solving F-terms for N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories with superpotentials involving certain multi-trace operators.en-USJournal Article2019-09-2210.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/010