Emergent Calabi-Yau Geometry
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We show how the smooth geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds emerges from the thermodynamic limit of the statistical mechanical model of crystal melting defined in our previous paper arXiv:0811.2801. In particular, the thermodynamic partition function of molten crystals is shown to be equal to the classical limit of the partition function of the topological string theory by relating the Ronkin function of the characteristic polynomial of the crystal melting model to the holomorphic 3-form on the corresponding Calabi-Yau manifold.
4 pages; v2: revised discussion on wall crossing; v3: typos corrected, published version
4 pages; v2: revised discussion on wall crossing; v3: typos corrected, published version