The Sound of Knots and 4-manifolds

Sergei Gukov

Barclay Prime is a restaurant in Philadelphia that became famous for its exquisite $100 cheesesteak. Served with a small bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne, Barclay Prime’s cheesesteak is made of sliced Kobe beef, melted Taleggio cheese, shaved truffles, sauteed foie gras, caramelized onions and heirloom shaved tomatoes on a homemade brioche roll brushed with truffle butter and squirted with homemade mustard. Yet, in essence, it still is just a sandwich. The physics of new knot and 4-manifold invariants discussed at the SCGP program “Knot homologies, BPS states, and SUSY gauge theories” involves sophisticated ingredients from string theory and M-theory. Yet, at its heart, it is just a familiar quantum mechanics that I will present to you in this talk.

http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=1884

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