Cumrun Vafa is a string theorist at Harvard.
On the quantum cohomology induced by supersymmetric sigma-models:
Sergio Cecotti, Cumrun Vafa, Exact Results for Supersymmetric Sigma Models, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 903-906 [arXiv:hep-th/9111016, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.903]
Sergio Cecotti, Cumrun Vafa, On Classification of Supersymmetric Theories, Comm. Math. Phys. 158 (1993) 569-644 [arXiv:hep-th/9211097, doi:10.1007/BF02096804]
On how the second quantization of the B-model yields Kodeira-Spencer gravity/BCOV theory:
Introducing the idea of F-theory:
On F-theory KK-compactified on Calabi-Yau manifolds and duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory:
David Morrison, Cumrun Vafa, Compactifications of F-Theory on Calabi–Yau Threefolds – I, Nucl. Phys. B473 (1996) 74-92 (arXiv:hep-th/9602114)
David Morrison, Cumrun Vafa, Compactifications of F-Theory on Calabi–Yau Threefolds – II, Nucl. Phys. B476:437-469, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9603161)
Introducing the idea of quantum cohomology:
On Chern-Simons theory as a topological string theory (open/closed string duality in interpreting 't Hooft double line notation in the large N limit and in AdS/CFT duality);
Including Wilson loop observables in Chern-Simons theory as a topological string theory:
Introducing Gopakumar-Vafa duality:
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)
On geometric engineering of quantum field theory:
Sheldon Katz, Albrecht Klemm, Cumrun Vafa, Geometric Engineering of Quantum Field Theories, Nucl.Phys. B497 (1997) 173-195 (arXiv:hep-th/9609239)
Sheldon Katz, Cumrun Vafa, Geometric Engineering of Quantum Field Theories, Nucl.Phys. B497 (1997) 196-204 (arXiv:hep-th/9611090)
On geometric engineering of QFT on D4-D6 brane intersections subject to the s-rule:
On microscopic explanation of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy via geometric engineering of black holes in string theory as bound states of D-branes:
On the large N limit:
M. Bershadsky, Z. Kakushadze, Cumrun Vafa, String expansion as large expansion of gauge theories, Nucl.Phys. B523 (1998) 59-72 (hep-th/9803076, doi)
Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa, Worldsheet Derivation of a Large Duality, Nucl. Phys. B641:3-34, 2002 (arXiv:hep-th/0205297)
S. Sinha, Cumrun Vafa, and Chern-Simons at Large (arXiv:hep-th/0012136)
(for Chern-Simons theory and topological string theory)
with emphasis on the resulting configuration spaces of points:
On a mysterious duality:
On topological string theory and integrable systems:
Mina Aganagic, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Albrecht Klemm, Marcos Marino, Cumrun Vafa, Topological Strings and Integrable Hierarchies, Commun. Math. Phys. 261 (2006) 451-516 [arXiv:hep-th/0312085, doi:10.1007/s00220-005-1448-9]
Mina Aganagic, Miranda Cheng, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Daniel Krefl, Cumrun Vafa, Quantum Geometry of Refined Topological Strings, J. High Energ. Phys. 2012 19 (2012) [arXiv:1105.0630, doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2012)019]
On moduli stabilization in non-geometric string vacua:
On M-theory on S1/G_HW times H/G_ADE and D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT:
On the KK-compactification of D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT (on M5-branes) to D=4 N=1 super Yang-Mills:
Ibrahima Bah, Christopher Beem, Nikolay Bobev, Brian Wecht, Four-Dimensional SCFTs from M5-Branes (arXiv:1203.0303)
Shlomo S. Razamat, Cumrun Vafa, Gabi Zafrir, from , J. High Energ. Phys. (2017) 2017: 64 (arXiv:1610.09178)
Ibrahima Bah, Amihay Hanany, Kazunobu Maruyoshi, Shlomo S. Razamat, Yuji Tachikawa, Gabi Zafrir, from on a torus with fluxes (arXiv:1702.04740)
Hee-Cheol Kim, Shlomo S. Razamat, Cumrun Vafa, Gabi Zafrir, E-String Theory on Riemann Surfaces, Fortsch. Phys. (arXiv:1709.02496)
Hee-Cheol Kim, Shlomo S. Razamat, Cumrun Vafa, Gabi Zafrir, D-type Conformal Matter and SU/USp Quivers, JHEP06(2018)058 (arXiv:1802.00620)
Hee-Cheol Kim, Shlomo S. Razamat, Cumrun Vafa, Gabi Zafrir, Compactifications of ADE conformal matter on a torus, JHEP09(2018)110 (arXiv:1806.07620)
On the KK-compactification of D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT (on M5-branes) to D=5 super Yang-Mills theory:
On M-strings:
Babak Haghighat, Amer Iqbal, Can Kozcaz, Guglielmo Lockhart, Cumrun Vafa, M-Strings, Commun. Math. Phys. 334, 779–842 (2015) (arXiv:1305.6322, doi:10.1007/s00220-014-2139-1)
Babak Haghighat, Can Kozcaz, Guglielmo Lockhart, Cumrun Vafa, On orbifolds of M-Strings, Physical Review D 89.4 (2014): 046003 (arXiv:1310.1185)
On E-strings:
J. A. Minahan, D. Nemeschansky, Cumrun Vafa, Nicholas Warner, E-Strings and Topological Yang-Mills Theories, Nucl. Phys. B527 (1998) 581-623 (arXiv:hep-th/9802168)
Babak Haghighat, Guglielmo Lockhart, Cumrun Vafa, Fusing E-string to heterotic string: , Phys. Rev. D 90, 126012 (2014) (arXiv:1406.0850)
Joonho Kim, Seok Kim, Kimyeong Lee, Jaemo Park, Cumrun Vafa, Elliptic Genus of E-strings, JHEP 1709 (2017) 098 (arXiv:1411.2324)
and emergence of SU(2) flavor-symmetry on M5-branes in heterotic M-theory (in the D=6 N=(1,0) SCFT on small instantons in heterotic string theory):
Cumrun Vafa, The String Landscape and the Swampland (arXiv:hepth/0509212)
Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa, On the Geometry of the String Landscape and the Swampland, Nucl.Phys.B766:21-33, 2007 (arXiv:hep-th/0605264)
T. Daniel Brennan, Federico Carta, Cumrun Vafa, The String Landscape, the Swampland, and the Missing Corner (arXiv:1711.00864)
Hee-Cheol Kim, Houri-Christina Tarazi, Cumrun Vafa, Four Dimensional SYM and the Swampland (arXiv:1912.06144)
On the M5-brane elliptic genus:
On Chern-Simons theory potentially applicable to a form of Berry curvature on the Brillouin torus of 3d topological semimetals, with nodal lines playing the role of Wilson lines:
Introducing the swampland cobordism conjecture:
Jacob McNamara, Cumrun Vafa, Cobordism Classes and the Swampland (arXiv:1909.10355, spire:1755441)
Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa, Cobordism Conjecture, Anomalies, and the String Lamppost Principle, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 63 (2021) (arXiv:2008.11729)
On mirror symmetry, topological string theory and a mysterious duality:
Cumrun Vafa, Mirror symmetry, Talk at String Theory at the Millennium, Caltech, January 2000 (slides html)
Strings, and the magic of extra dimensions, public talk at ICTS, Bangalore, June 2013 (pdf slides, video)
F-theory, Black holes and topological strings, talk at ift 2018, (pdf, recording)
On Ray-Singer torsion in relation to the topological string and black hole entropy:
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