## Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

### ${\rm SU}(N)$ geometries and topological string amplitudes

#### Abstract

It has been conjectured recently that the field theory limit of the topological string partition functions, including all higher genus contributions, for the family of CY3-folds giving rise to $\mathcal{N}=2$ 4D $SU(N)$ gauge theory via geometric engineering can be obtained from gauge instanton calculus. We verify this surprising conjecture by calculating the partition functions for such local CYs using diagrammatic techniques inspired by geometric transitions. Determining the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for these geometries to all orders in the fiber wrappings allows us to take the field theory limit.

#### Article information

Source
Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., Volume 10, Number 1 (2006), 1-32.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 30 July 2006

Iqbal, Amer; Kashani-Poor, Amir-Kian. ${\rm SU}(N)$ geometries and topological string amplitudes. Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 10 (2006), no. 1, 1--32. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1154236236