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January 4, 2006

Nekrasov Lecture Online I

Posted by Urs Schreiber

A while ago we had talked about (I, II, III) how gerbes of chiral differential operators make an appearance in Berkovits’ formulation of the superstring in terms of a curved β−γ\beta-\gamma-system of pure spinors. As Peter Woit has already noted on his blog, Nikita Nekrasov is currently lecturing on his latest preprint

Nikita Nekrasov
Lectures on curved beta-gamma systems, pure spinors, and anomalies
hep-th/0511008

in Jerusalem, and a quicktime video of his lectures is available online.

I have watched the first two parts, hoping to see some hints concerning open questions like those mentioned here. But no luck so far…

Posted at January 4, 2006 6:54 PM UTC

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Read the post Lauda & Pfeiffer on Open-Closed Topological Strings, II
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Excerpt: Lauda and Pfeiffer on open/closed topological strings from state sums.
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