Seminar quantum physics and geometry
Categories, D-Branes, and Stability

Coordination: Christoph Schweigert and Jörg Teschner

20.10.2011: Coherent Sheaves (Florin Belgun)
Following: [1], Chapter 4, [3]

03.11.2011: Overview: D-Branes on CY-Manifolds (Jörg Teschner)
Following: [1]

17.11.2011: Derived Categories and D-Branes (Christian Böhning)
Following (among others): [2], [1], Chapter 5

15.12.2011: A-Model and B-Model: Which geometric objects become relevant. (Junya Yagi)
Following: [1], Chapter 2 and 3, [4]

12.01.2012: Stability: Mathematician's point of view (Pawel Sosna)
Following: [5]

26.01.2012: Stability: Physicist's point of view (Jörg Teschner) /
Following: [1]

References:

• [1] P. S. Aspinwall, D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds arXiv:hep-th/0403166
• [2] M. Kashiwara, P. Shapira, Categories and Sheaves, Springer, 2000
• [3] P. Griffiths, J. Harris, Principles of Algebraic Geometry, John Wiley, New York, 1994
• [4] E. Witten, Mirror Manifolds And Topological Field Theory arXiv:hep-th/9112056
• [5] T. Bridgeland, Spaces of stability conditions arXiv:math/0611510

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Seminar quantum physics and geometry