In theoretical physics, the Vafa–Witten theorem, named after Cumrun Vafa and Edward Witten, is a theorem that shows that vector-like global symmetries...
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"Symmetries, inequalities and index theorems", under the supervision of Edward Witten. After his PhD degree, Vafa became a junior fellow via the Harvard...
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Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory...
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conservative politician Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) Vafa Mortar Vafa–Witten theorem This page or section lists people that share the same given...
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so-called Unruh effect. Cumrun Vafa: physicist and developer of F-theory, known for Vafa-Witten theorem and Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture. Robert Wald: physicist...
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theorem (artificial neural networks) Universal coefficient theorem (algebraic topology) Unmixedness theorem (algebraic geometry) Vafa–Witten theorem (physics)...
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in papers by theoretical physicists, such as Edward Witten and Cumrun Vafa, by analogy with Witten's earlier idea of topological quantum field theory. There...
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Gopakumar–Vafa invariants, which are meant to give an underlying integer count to the typically rational Gromov-Witten theory. The Gopakumar-Vafa invariants...
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2003, p. xvi. Zaslow 2008, p. 523. Yau & Nadis 2010, p. 168. Hori & Vafa 2000. Witten 1990. Givental 1996, 1998; Lian, Liu & Yau 1997, 1999a, 1999b, 2000...
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theoretical physics and mathematics, a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model, also called a Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a type of two-dimensional conformal...
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and Vafa considered in their original work were quite different from real astrophysical black holes. One difference was that Strominger and Vafa considered...
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John A. Todd (Stiefel manifolds), Cumrun Vafa (M-theory), Richard S. Ward (instantons) and Edward Witten (M-theory, topological quantum field theories)...
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Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string theory conference at the University of Southern California in 1995. Witten's announcement...
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medical community. The Vafa-Witten theorem was proposed by Cumrun Vafa, an Iranian string theorist, and his co-worker Edward Witten. Nima Arkani-Hamed, is...
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perturbative Feynman diagram calculations—examples include the Witten anomaly and Wang–Wen–Witten anomaly. The most prevalent global anomaly in physics is associated...
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apply the Tian−Yau existence theorem to construct a Kähler metric which is exactly Ricci-flat. The Greene−Shapere−Vafa−Yau ansatz and its natural generalization...
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popularity. Further invariants were discovered, such as Seiberg–Witten invariants and Vafa–Witten invariants. Strong links to algebraic geometry were realised...
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Barbara. He is the author of over 200 publications. a paper with Cumrun Vafa that explains the microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, originally...
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Vacuum solution (general relativity) Vacuum state Vadim Knizhnik Vafa–Witten theorem Vagn Walfrid Ekman Val Logsdon Fitch Valence band Valence electron...
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1140/epjc/s10052-008-0740-1. S2CID 17452924. Beasley, Chris; Heckman, Jonathan J; Vafa, Cumrun (2009). "GUTs and exceptional branes in F-theory — I". Journal of...
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sigma model Wess–Zumino–Witten model Wess–Zumino model Supersymmetric Yang–Mills 4D N = 1 global supersymmetry Seiberg–Witten theory Super QCD (sQCD)...
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supersymmetry generators considered is 32. This is due to the Weinberg–Witten theorem. This corresponds to an N = 8[clarification needed] supersymmetry theory...
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under the action of the group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms. Theorem. Suppose that M {\displaystyle M} is a three-dimensional complex manifold...
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ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 1506387. E. Witten, "Chern–Simons gauge theory as a string theory", Prog. Math. 133 637, (1995) E. Witten, "Noncommutative tachyons and...
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supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory. Recent work of Anton Kapustin and Edward Witten suggests that Montonen–Olive duality is closely related to a research program...
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dimensions. Itzhak Bars[citation needed] gives this emphasis. In 1981 Ed Witten showed 11 as the smallest number of dimensions big enough to contain the...
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condition that the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem holds (and, in general, they are necessary conditions for the theorem to hold). Just as for Lie algebras,...
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field of string theory and its mathematical framework. Together with Edward Witten he showed in 1983 that quantum field theories generally have gravitational...
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elementary particles observed. For example, Andrew Strominger and Edward Witten have shown that the masses of particles depend on the manner of the intersection...
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Ambrose–Singer theorem, every such metric is Ricci-flat. The Calabi–Yau theorem specializes to this context, giving a general existence and uniqueness theorem for...
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