# PHASE SPACE POLARIZATION AND THE TOPOLOGICAL STRING: A CASE STUDY

@article{KashaniPoor2008PHASESP,
title={PHASE SPACE POLARIZATION AND THE TOPOLOGICAL STRING: A CASE STUDY},
author={Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor},
journal={Modern Physics Letters A},
year={2008},
volume={23},
pages={3199-3214}
}
We review and elaborate on our discussion in hep-th/0606112 on the interplay between the target space and the worldsheet description of the open topological string partition function, for the example of the conifold. We discuss the appropriate phase space and canonical form for the system. We find a map between choices of polarization and the worldsheet description, based on which we study the behavior of the partition function under canonical transformations.

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