Notes on integrating out M2 branes

Jarod Hattab; Eran Palti

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-13827-5

Notes on integrating out M2 branes

Jarod Hattab, Eran Palti

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Integrating out supersymmetric M2 branes wrapped on two-cycles in Calabi–Yau manifolds is an important calculation: it allows the determination of, and in some ways defines, the free energy of topological strings. In these notes, based on a short course aimed at graduate students, we go through various aspects of this calculation in detail. The end result is a recently proposed new formula for the topological string free energy.

Original language	English
Article number	107
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	85
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-13827-5
State	Published - 1 Jan 2025

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