TY - JOUR T1 - The Liouville side of the vortex JF - JHEP 09(2011)096 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Giulio Bonelli A1 - Alessandro Tanzini A1 - Jian Zhao AB - We analyze conformal blocks with multiple (semi-)degenerate field insertions in Liouville/Toda conformal field theories an show that their vector space is fully reproduced by the four-dimensional limit of open topological string amplitudes on the strip with generic boundary conditions associated to a suitable quiver gauge theory. As a byproduct we identify the non-abelian vortex partition function with a specific fusion channel of degenerate conformal blocks. PB - SISSA UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4304 N1 - 25pages,11figures U1 - 4019 U2 - Physics U3 - Elementary Particle Theory U4 - -1 ER -