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Takagi Lectures on Donaldson–Thomas theory

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These are introductory notes on Donaldson–Thomas counts of curves in threefolds and their connections with other branches of mathematics and mathematical physics. They are based on my 2018 Takagi Lectures at The University of Tokyo.

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