String duality is a class of symmetries in physics that link different string theories, theories which assume that the fundamental building blocks of...
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Two theories related by a duality need not be string theories. For example, Montonen–Olive duality is an example of an S-duality relationship between quantum...
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In theoretical physics, S-duality (short for strong–weak duality, or Sen duality) is an equivalence of two physical theories, which may be either quantum...
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unified, as long hoped, by new equivalences. These are known as S-duality, T-duality, U-duality, mirror symmetry, and conifold transitions. The different theories...
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I string theory — a theory that also contains open strings; this relation is called S-duality. The HO and HE theories are also related by T-duality. Because...
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T-duality (short for target-space duality) in theoretical physics is an equivalence of two physical theories, which may be either quantum field theories...
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Look up duality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Duality may refer to: Duality (mathematics), a mathematical concept Dual (category theory), a formalization...
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M-theory (redirect from Mysterious duality)
called S-duality and T-duality. Witten's conjecture was based in part on the existence of these dualities and in part on the relationship of the string theories...
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Other dualities that arise in string theory are S-duality, T-duality, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. For an accessible introduction to string theory...
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Holographic principle (redirect from Holographic duality)
field theory correspondence, sometimes called Maldacena duality (after ref.) or gauge/gravity duality, is a conjectured relationship between two kinds of...
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realized that type IIA string theory is related to type IIB string theory by T-duality. Superstring theory Type I string Heterotic string Green, M.B.; Schwarz...
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AdS/CFT correspondence (redirect from AdS/CFT duality)
field theories. Much of the usefulness of the duality results from the fact that it is a strong–weak duality: when the fields of the quantum field theory...
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formalism String theory landscape History of string theory First superstring revolution Second superstring revolution T-duality S-duality U-duality Montonen–Olive...
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In physics, U-duality (short for unified duality) is a symmetry of string theory or M-theory combining S-duality and T-duality transformations. The term...
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Superstring theory (redirect from Super string theory)
take form of a G2 manifold. A particular exact symmetry of string/M-theory called T-duality (which exchanges momentum modes for winding number and sends...
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K3 surface (category String theory)
Severi (1909). Aspinwall, Paul (1996), "K3 surfaces and string duality", Fields, strings and duality (Boulder, CO, 1996), World Scientific, pp. 421–540,...
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In physics, a string is a physical entity postulated in string theory and related subjects. Unlike elementary particles, which are zero-dimensional or...
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in string theory reproduced the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy. Since then, similar results have been reported for different black holes both in string theory...
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In theoretical physics, type I string theory is one of five consistent supersymmetric string theories in ten dimensions. It is the only one whose strings...
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D-brane (category String theory)
that are required by string duality,[failed verification] leading to rapid progress in the nonperturbative understanding of string theory. Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield...
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Supersymmetry (section Supersymmetry in string theory)
realistic theories. A prime example of this has been the demonstration of S-duality in four-dimensional gauge theories that interchanges particles and monopoles...
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were related by "string dualities", some of which relate weak string-coupling - perturbative - physics in one model with strong string-coupling - non-perturbative...
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Bosonic string theory is the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s and named after Satyendra Nath Bose. It is so called because...
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In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape"...
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Montonen–Olive duality Mysterious duality (M-theory) Seiberg duality String duality S-duality T-duality U-duality Wave–particle duality Convex duality Mechanical–electrical...
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particular variant of superstring theory called Type IIB (see also String duality ), which holds that strings are both "open" (double-ended entities)...
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Black brane (redirect from Black string)
spatial dimensions. That type of solution would be called a black p-brane. In string theory, the term black brane describes a group of D1-branes that are surrounded...
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Calabi–Yau manifold (category String theory)
Bibcode:2004math.....10260C Greene, Brian (1997), String theory on Calabi–Yau manifolds, Fields, strings and duality (Boulder, CO, 1996), River Edge, NJ: World...
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String field theory (SFT) is a formalism in string theory in which the dynamics of relativistic strings is reformulated in the language of quantum field...
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Tachyon (category String theory)
of a tachyonic field is the tachyon of bosonic string theory. Tachyons are predicted by bosonic string theory and also the Neveu-Schwarz (NS) and NS-NS...
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