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Emanuel Diaconescu

2011-08-01
10:30:00 - 11:30:00

308 , Mathematics Research Center Building (ori. New Math. Bldg.)

The stable pair theory of the conifold is related via wallcrossing to polynomial invariants of algebraic knots. These results provide a geometric and physical context for a recent conjecture of Oblomkov and Shende. This is work in progress with A. Oblomkov, V. Shende and C. Vafa.