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SUMMARY: Knot homologies\, BPS states\, and super-A-polynomials
DTSTART:20141215T151500
DTEND:20141215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260609T210828Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Piotr Sułkowski (Caltech/Warsaw)\nInteractions between knot 
 theory\, quantum field theory\, and string theory have always been very fr
 uitful\, and various ideas in physics often led to important results in kn
 ot theory. Examples of such results include reformulation of knot polynomi
 als as quantum correlators in Chern-Simons theory or a discovery of integr
 al Ooguri-Vafa invariants. One of the most exciting recent developments at
  the border of knot theory and physics relate to reinterpretation of knot 
 homologies as spaces of BPS states in D-brane systems in string theory. In
  this talk\, after summarizing relevant background\, I will review some re
 cent results - in particular I will present conjectural form of so-called 
 colored superpolynomials and super-A-polynomials for various knots\, which
  have been determined based on insights from physics.
LOCATION:MAA331 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=maa331
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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