Exact Instanton Expansion of Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories from Topological Strings

Understand

It was known that the ABJM matrix model is dual to the topological string theory on a Calabi-Yau manifold.

• Using this relation it was possible to write down the exact instanton expansion of the partition function of the ABJM matrix model.
• The expression consists of a universal function constructed from the free energy of the refined topological string theory with an overall topological invariant characterizing the Calabi-Yau manifold.
• In this paper we explore two other superconformal Chern-Simons theories of the circular quiver type.