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D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds

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European Congress of Mathematics

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We give an overview of recent work on Dirichlet branes on CalabiYau threefolds which makes contact with Kontsevich’s homological mirror symmetry proposal, proposes a new definition of stability which is appropriate in string theory, and provides concrete quiver categories equivalent to certain categories of branes on CY.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08855-0849, USA

    Michael R. Douglas

  2. I.H.E.S., Le Bois-Marie, Bures-sur-Yvette, 91440, France

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  1. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Carles Casacuberta  & Joan Verdera  & 

  2. Departament d’Algebra i Geometria Facultat de Matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona, 08007, Barcelona, Spain

    Rosa Maria Miró-Roig

  3. Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Sebastià Xambó-Descamps

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Douglas, M.R. (2001). D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds. In: Casacuberta, C., Miró-Roig, R.M., Verdera, J., Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 202. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8266-8_39

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