Gopakumar–Vafa duality is a duality in string theory, hence a correspondence between two different theories, in this case between Chern–Simons theory...
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gauge/geometry correspondence with Cumrun Vafa and is particularly known for proposing the Gopakumar–Vafa duality and Gopakumar–Vafa invariants. Later, his work focused...
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geometry and field theories that arise through string dualities (culminating in the Gopakumar–Vafa conjecture). This topic has been known as "geometric...
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integers. Gopakumar–Vafa duality Gopakumar & Vafa 1998a Gopakumar & Vafa 1998b Gopakumar & Vafa 1999 Gopakumar & Vafa 1998d Gopakumar, Rajesh; Vafa, Cumrun...
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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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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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String theory (redirect from Duality revolution)
distinctive geometrical singularities allowed in string theory. Cumrun Vafa generalized T-duality from circles to arbitrary manifolds, creating the mathematical...
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particular example of what physicists call a physical duality. In general, the term physical duality refers to a situation where two seemingly different...
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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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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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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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Barbara. He is the author of over 200 publications. a paper with Cumrun Vafa that explains the microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, originally...
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List of string theory topics (section String duality)
revolution Second superstring revolution T-duality S-duality U-duality Montonen–Olive duality Mysterious duality Graviton Dilaton Tachyon Ramond–Ramond field...
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Topological string theory (section Dualities)
strings. Perhaps the first such duality is the Gopakumar–Vafa duality, which was introduced by Rajesh Gopakumar and Cumrun Vafa in On the Gauge Theory/Geometry...
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developed by Iranian-American physicist Cumrun Vafa. The new vacua described by F-theory were discovered by Vafa and allowed string theorists to construct...
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physics, the dual graviton is a hypothetical elementary particle that is a dual of the graviton under electric–magnetic duality, as an S-duality, predicted...
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1989, Dai, Leigh, Polchinski, and Hořava independently, discovered that T-duality interchanges the usual Neumann boundary conditions with Dirichlet boundary...
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a G2 manifold. A particular exact symmetry of string/M-theory called T-duality (which exchanges momentum modes for winding number and sends compact dimensions...
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{\displaystyle H^{p,q}\cong {\overline {H^{n-p,n-q}}}} . It also follows from Serre duality. A simple consequence of Hodge theory is that every odd Betti number b2a+1...
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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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Superstring (Type I, Type II, Heterotic) Non-perturbative results S-duality T-duality U-duality M-theory F-theory AdS/CFT correspondence Phenomenology Phenomenology...
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incorporates various extended objects like D0, D2, D4 and D6 branes (using Hodge duality) among the D-branes (which are R {\displaystyle {\text{R}}} R {\displaystyle...
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M-theory (redirect from Mysterious duality)
mathematical transformations 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...
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to Gopakumar–Vafa invariants, which are meant to give an underlying integer count to the typically rational Gromov-Witten theory. The Gopakumar-Vafa invariants...
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Superstring (Type I, Type II, Heterotic) Non-perturbative results S-duality T-duality U-duality M-theory F-theory AdS/CFT correspondence Phenomenology Phenomenology...
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condensation RNS formalism GS formalism String duality T-duality S-duality U-duality Montonen–Olive duality Particles and fields Graviton Dilaton Tachyon...
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Montonen–Olive duality or electric–magnetic duality is the oldest known example of strong–weak duality or S-duality according to current terminology. It...
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Brian (1997), String theory on Calabi–Yau manifolds, Fields, strings and duality (Boulder, CO, 1996), River Edge, NJ: World Sci. Publ., pp. 543–726,...
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calculated by Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten in "Electric – magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang–Mills...
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Heterotic string theory (section String duality)
called S-duality. The HO and HE theories are also related by T-duality. Because the various superstring theories were shown to be related by dualities, it...
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