Sixth Annotation: Chern-Simons Theory and Topological Strings

Chern-Simons Theory and Topological Strings

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0406005

wrote by Marcos Marino sumitted on 1 Jun 2004, last revised 9 may 2005.

It says that they review the relation between Chern-Simons gauge theory and topological string theory. 

This relation has made possible to give an exact solution of string theory on these spaces to all orders in the string coupling

constant.

also,I found up a book name Chern-Simon theory, Matrix Models, and Topological strings.

According the overview is In recent years, the old idea that gauge theories and string theories are equivalent has been implemented and developed in various ways, and there are by now various models where the string theory / gauge theory correspondence is at work. One of the most important examples of this correspondence relates Chern-Simons theory, a topological gauge theory in three dimensions which describes knot and three-manifold invariants, to topological string theory, which is deeply related to Gromov-Witten invariants.