In theoretical physics the Hanany–Witten transition, also called the Hanany–Witten effect, refers to any process in a superstring theory in which two...

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

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...

elementary particles observed. For example, Andrew Strominger and Edward Witten have shown that the masses of particles depend on the manner of the intersection...

interactions representing flavor-chiral anomalies results in the Wess–Zumino–Witten model, which augments the geometry of the flow to include torsion, preserving...

Connes, Douglas, and Schwarz 1998 Nekrasov and Schwarz 1998 Seiberg and Witten 1999 N. Ishibashi, H. Kawai, Y. Kitazawa, A. Tsuchiya, "A Large-N Reduced...

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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...

configuration to be obtained from a stack of D9 and anti D9-branes. Edward Witten has shown that such configurations will be classified by the K-theory of...

theory cancel is therefore trivial. In the 1990s it was realized by Edward Witten (building on previous insights by Michael Duff, Paul Townsend, and others)...

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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 most...

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theory of membranes, but Witten was skeptical of the role of membranes in the theory. In a paper from 1996, Hořava and Witten wrote "As it has been proposed...

objects (D-brane, orientifold). In the 1990s it was first argued by Edward Witten that type I string theory with the string coupling constant g {\displaystyle...

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In theoretical physics, the Hořava–Witten theory argues that the cancellation of anomalies guarantees that a supersymmetric gauge theory with the E8 gauge...

Bibcode:2005CQGra..22.2971C. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/14/008. S2CID 17317614. Witten, E. (1993). "Quantum Background Independence In String Theory". arXiv:hep-th/9306122...

Lett. B 189: 75 (1987). It was Edward Witten who observed that the theory must be an 11-dimensional one in Witten, Edward (1995). "String theory dynamics...

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theory conference at the University of Southern California in 1995, Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study suggested that the five different versions...

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brane Black holes Black string Brane cosmology Quiver diagram Hanany–Witten transition Conformal field theory Virasoro algebra Mirror symmetry Conformal...

brane Black holes Black string Brane cosmology Quiver diagram Hanany–Witten transition Conformal field theory Virasoro algebra Mirror symmetry Conformal...

string-theoretic description of the topology-change via the conifold transition originally described by Candelas, Green & Hübsch (1990), who also invented...

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so-emerging supersymmetric theory of stochastic dynamics can be recognized as the Witten-type topological field theory. The meaning of the topological supersymmetry...

Witten made the surprising suggestion that all five of these theories were just different limits of a single theory now known as M-theory. Witten's proposal...

Gubser, Igor Klebanov, and Alexander Markovich Polyakov, and by Edward Witten. By 2015, Maldacena's article had over 10,000 citations, becoming the most...

brane Black holes Black string Brane cosmology Quiver diagram Hanany–Witten transition Conformal field theory Virasoro algebra Mirror symmetry Conformal...