• non-technical terms, M-theory presents an idea about the basic substance of the universe. Although a complete mathematical formulation of M-theory is not known...
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  • physics, M-theory is a theory that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at...
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    Feynman (1985) QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton University Press. Donald H. Perkins (1982) Introduction to High-Energy Physics. Addison-Wesley:...
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  • An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers is a classic textbook in the field of number theory, by G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright. It is on the list of 173...
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  • on string theory". arXiv:2208.05179 [hep-th]. Ibáñez, Luis E.; Uranga, Angel M. (2012). String Theory and Particle Physics: An Introduction to String Phenomenology...
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  • spacetime, which appears in M-theory, a proposed "master theory" that unifies the five superstring theories Introduction to M-theory "11th Dimension" (song)...
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    Sterman, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, pg 4, ISBN 0-521-31132-2 Sean M. Carroll (2004). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity...
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  • (2007). String theory and M-theory: A modern introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86069-7. Duff, Michael (1998). "The theory formerly known...
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  • theory tentatively called M-theory. One of the deepest open problems in theoretical physics is formulating a theory of quantum gravity. Such a theory...
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  • Brane (redirect from Membrane (M-Theory))
    Look up brane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In string theory and related theories (such as supergravity), a brane is a physical object that generalizes...
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  • Graviton (category String theory)
    field theory of gravitons due to an outstanding mathematical problem with renormalization in general relativity. In string theory, believed by some to be...
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  • different limits of an 11-dimensional theory that became known as M-theory (for details, see Introduction to M-theory). These discoveries sparked the second...
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    Norbert Wiener in laying out a basic mathematical theory. Ashby, William Ross (1956). An Introduction to Cybernetics. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. ISBN 9781614277651...
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    one hundred years after the theory was first published, research is more active than ever. General relativity Introduction to the mathematics of general...
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  • theories. On one side are anti-de Sitter spaces (AdS) which are used in theories of quantum gravity, formulated in terms of string theory or M-theory...
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  • Katrin; Becker, M.; Schwarz, J. H. (2007). String theory and M-theory : a modern introduction. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 253....
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    Rohini M.; Roy, Probir (2004). Theory and Phenomenology of Sparticles. World Scientific. ISBN 9-810-23739-1. Bilal, Adel (2001). "Introduction to Supersymmetry"...
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  • string theory Heterotic string N=2 superstring M-theory Matrix theory Introduction to M-theory F-theory String field theory Matrix string theory Nonlinear...
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  • spacetime in M-theory. Proposed by Petr Hořava and Edward Witten, the theory is important for various relations between M-theory and superstring theory. nLab...
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    Calabi–Yau manifold (category String theory)
    superstring theory, the extra dimensions of spacetime are sometimes conjectured to take the form of a 6-dimensional Calabi–Yau manifold, which led to the idea...
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    In physics, Kaluza–Klein theory (KK theory) is a classical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built around the idea of a fifth dimension...
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    Black hole (category Theory of relativity)
    August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016. 't Hooft, G. (2009). "Introduction to the Theory of Black Holes" (PDF). Institute for Theoretical Physics / Spinoza...
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  • D-brane (category String theory)
    second superstring revolution and led to both holographic and M-theory dualities. The equations of motion of string theory require that the endpoints of an...
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  • Tachyon (category String theory)
    (2011). "An introduction to the theory of tachyons". Rev. Bras. Ens. Fis. 34 (3). arXiv:1112.4187. Bibcode:2011arXiv1112.4187V. Hill, James M.; Cox, Barry...
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  • T-duality (category String theory)
    superstring theories are just different limiting cases of a single eleven-dimensional theory called M-theory. In general, T-duality relates two theories with...
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  • supergravity. These calculations led them to propose that the BFSS matrix model is exactly equivalent to M-theory. The BFSS matrix model can therefore be...
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  • relation to "Mother"-theory. F-theory is formally a 12-dimensional theory, but the only way to obtain an acceptable background is to compactify this theory on...
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  • theories of quantum gravity, formulated in terms of string theory or M-theory. On the other side of the correspondence are conformal field theories (CFT)...
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  • that arise in string theory are S-duality, T-duality, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. For an accessible introduction to string theory, see Greene 2000. Wald...
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  • Moduli space (redirect from Moduli theory)
    Michael Artin. Here the idea is to start with an object of the kind to be classified and study its deformation theory. This means first constructing infinitesimal...
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