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Gopakumar-Vafa duality

A duality in string theory.

Related concepts

• Gopakumar-Vafa invariant

References

The original articles are

• Rajesh Gopakumar, Cumrun Vafa, Topological Gravity as Large N Topological Gauge Theory, Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:413-442, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9802016)

• Rajesh Gopakumar, Cumrun Vafa, On the Gauge Theory/Geometry Correspondence, Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 3 (1999) 1415-1443 (arXiv:hep-th/9811131)

Review includes

• Dave Auckly, Sergiy Koshkin, Introduction to the Gopakumar-Vafa Large $N$ Duality, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 8 (2006) 195-456 (arXiv:0701568)