the Witten conjecture is a conjecture about intersection numbers of stable classes on the moduli space of curves, introduced by Edward Witten in the...

Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory...

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...

easily using Seiberg–Witten theory, though there are a number of open problems remaining in Donaldson theory, such as the Witten conjecture and the Atiyah–Floer...

international meeting, the Arbeitstagung, where he sketched a proof of the Witten conjecture to the amazement of Michael Atiyah and other mathematicians and his...

construction of Pin (2)-equivariant Seiberg–Witten Floer homology, with which he disproved the Triangulation Conjecture for manifolds of dimension 5 and higher...

statement of the problem was given by Arthur Jaffe and Edward Witten. Mathematics portal Beal conjecture Hilbert's problems List of mathematics awards List of...

Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman's conjecture that moonshine module is the unique holomorphic VOA with central charge 24 and character j-744, Witten concluded that pure...

doi:10.2140/agt.2004.4.73. Kronheimer, Peter; Mrowka, Tomasz (2004). "Witten's conjecture and Property P". Geometry & Topology. 8: 295–310. arXiv:math.GT/0311489...

In algebraic geometry, the Virasoro conjecture states that a certain generating function encoding Gromov–Witten invariants of a smooth projective variety...

{\text{SU}}(2)} -connections on M {\displaystyle M} . The Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture suggests that at t = e π i / r {\displaystyle t=e^{{\pi...

applying techniques from algebraic geometry. The geometric Langlands conjecture asserts the existence of the geometric Langlands correspondence. The existence...

Weinstein conjecture has now been proven for all closed 3-dimensional manifolds by Clifford Taubes. The proof uses a variant of Seiberg–Witten Floer homology...

the first Chern classes of the n cotangent line bundles, as in Witten's conjecture. Let a 1 , … , a n {\displaystyle a_{1},\ldots ,a_{n}} be positive...

Edward Witten suggested that the five theories were just special limiting cases of an eleven-dimensional theory called M-theory. Witten's conjecture was...

Serre's modularity conjecture Standard conjectures on algebraic cycles Abramovich, Dan; Graber, Tom; Vistoli, Angelo (2008). "Gromov-Witten Theory of Deligne-Mumford...

using the Seiberg–Witten invariants. There is at least one generalization of this conjecture, known as the symplectic Thom conjecture (which is now a theorem...

and partly motivated Witten's introduction of the Seiberg–Witten invariants. The second paper proves the so-called Thom conjecture and was one of the first...

MR 1798809 Taubes, Clifford Henry (2007), "The Seiberg-Witten equations and the Weinstein conjecture", Geometry & Topology, 11 (4): 2117–2202, arXiv:math/0611007...

Klebanov and Polyakov, and another paper of Edward Witten. These papers made Maldacena's conjecture more precise and showed that the conformal field theory...

Maulik–Nekrasov–Okounkov–Pandharipande conjecture on an equivalence between Gromov–Witten theory and Donaldson–Thomas theory Nagata's conjecture on curves, specifically...

the Gorenstein condition for every n. ELSV formula Hodge bundle Witten's conjecture Faber, C.; Pandharipande, R. (2011). "Tautological and non-tautological...

Seiberg–Witten invariants are invariants of compact smooth oriented 4-manifolds introduced by Edward Witten (1994), using the Seiberg–Witten theory studied...

medal as of 2022. With the exception of two PhD holders in physics (Edward Witten and Martin Hairer), only people with a PhD in mathematics have won the medal...

superstring theory, the extra dimensions of spacetime are sometimes conjectured to take the form of a 6-dimensional Calabi–Yau manifold, which led to...

students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin, Simon Donaldson, and Edward Witten. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory...

In mathematics, the Weil conjectures were highly influential proposals by André Weil (1949). They led to a successful multi-decade program to prove them...

1985 to be powerful tools in symplectic geometry. In 1991, Edward Witten conjectured a use of Gromov's theory to define enumerative invariants. Tian and...

Horava (2005)). This conjecture, applied to D-brane charges, was first proposed by Minasian & Moore (1997). It was popularized by Witten (1998) who demonstrated...

consequences of positivity. Research has been led by Nima Arkani-Hamed. Edward Witten described the work as "very unexpected" and said that "it is difficult to...