String Theory and Homological Invariants for 3-Manifolds

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• Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University; Harvard University)
• Monday 10 April 2017, 10:00-11:00
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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HTLW03 - Physics and knot homologies

In this talk I review the recent progress made in defining homological invariants for 3-manifold using string theory constructions.  This generalizes the constructions of homological invariants for knots using M5 branes, to the case of 3-manifolds.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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