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arxiv: hep-th/0402128 · v2 · submitted 2004-02-17 · ✦ hep-th

N=2 strings and the twistorial Calabi-Yau

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords yang-millsconjecturestringsamplitudesbranescalabi-yaucovariantizedcurves
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We interpret the A and B model topological strings on CP^{3|4} as equivalent to open N=2 string theory on spacetime with signature (2,2), when covariantized with respect to SO(2,2) and supersymmetrized a la Siegel. We propose that instantons ending on Lagrangian branes wrapping RP^{3|4} deform the self-dual N=4 Yang-Mills sector to ordinary Yang-Mills by generating a `t Hooft like expansion. We conjecture that the A and B versions are S-dual to each other. We also conjecture that mirror symmetry may explain the recent observations of Witten that twistor transformed N=4 Yang-Mills amplitudes lie on holomorphic curves.

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