Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volume 16 (2012)

Number 3

Contents

Localization with a surface operator, irregular conformal blocks and open topological string

Hidetoshi Awata, Hiroyuki Fuji, Hiroaki Kanno, Masahide Manabe, and Yasuhiko Yamada

pp. 725-804

Direct integration for general Ω backgrounds

Min-Xin Huang and Albrecht Klemm

pp. 805-849

Diffeomorphism-invariant covariant Hamiltonians of a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a linear connection

Masqué Jaime Muñoz and María Eugenia Rosado María

pp. 851-886

Groups acting freely on Calabi–Yau threefolds embedded in a product of del Pezzo surfaces

Gilberto Bini and Filippo F. Favale

pp. 887-933

Knot invariants from four-dimensional gauge theory

Davide Gaiotto and Edward Witten

pp. 935-1086