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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Louis Witten (born April 13, 1921) is an American theoretical physicist and the father of the physicist Edward Witten. Witten's research has centered...
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physics that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string theory...
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He has also been investigating (in particular, in a joint work with Edward Witten) connections between the geometric Langlands correspondence and dualities...
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when Edward Witten suggested that the five theories were just special limiting cases of an eleven-dimensional theory called M-theory. Witten's conjecture...
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a Hořava–Witten domain wall, behaves as a boundary of the eleven-dimensional spacetime in M-theory. Proposed by Petr Hořava and Edward Witten, the theory...
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Chern–Simons theory (redirect from Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant)
3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type developed by Edward Witten. It was discovered first by mathematical physicist Albert Schwarz. It...
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field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Edward Witten. A WZW model is associated to a Lie group (or supergroup), and its symmetry...
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Seiberg–Witten invariants are invariants of compact smooth oriented 4-manifolds introduced by Edward Witten (1994), using the Seiberg–Witten theory studied...
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of articles on education and women in science. Nappi is married to Edward Witten, a mathematical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced...
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In theoretical physics, the Weinberg–Witten (WW) theorem, proved by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten, states that massless particles (either composite...
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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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They are named after Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten. The rigorous mathematical definition of Gromov–Witten invariants is lengthy and difficult, so it...
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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...
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Nappi and Edward Witten. She is married to software engineer Ari Steinberg. Daniela Witten publications indexed by Google Scholar Daniela Witten at the Mathematics...
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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...
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BCFW recursion (redirect from Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten recursion)
named for their creators, Ruth Britto, Freddy Cachazo, Bo Feng and Edward Witten. The BCFW recursion method is a way of calculating scattering amplitudes...
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language). The theory was studied in detail by Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten (Seiberg & Witten 1994). In general, effective Lagrangians of supersymmetric...
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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...
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the Witten conjecture is a conjecture about intersection numbers of stable classes on the moduli space of curves, introduced by Edward Witten in the...
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Positive energy theorem (section Witten (1981))
theorem. Edward Witten, in 1982, gave the outlines of an alternative proof, which were later filled in rigorously by mathematicians. Witten and Yau were...
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Steven Gubser, Igor Klebanov and Alexander Polyakov, and another by Edward Witten. By 2015, Maldacena's article had over 10,000 citations, becoming the...
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background where the field strength tensor is turned on. Additionally, Edward Witten argued in 1981 that eleven dimensions are also the minimum number of...
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their electric charges must all be equal modulo 1. The Witten effect, demonstrated by Edward Witten in his 1979 paper, states that the electric charges of...
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his development, with Bryce DeWitt, of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation. Edward Witten: mathematical physicist in string theory and M-Theory List of loop quantum...
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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 Society...
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students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin, Simon Donaldson, and Edward Witten. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory...
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fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru; both were doctoral students of Edward Witten. Postdoctoral associate, Rutgers University, 1996–1997 Assistant professor...
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almost impossible" by Drinfeld. In a paper from 2007, Anton Kapustin and Edward Witten described a connection between the geometric Langlands correspondence...
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area with his wife and two sons. He is the son of Louis Witten and the brother of Edward Witten, both of whom are theoretical physicists. The Deal (1989)...
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