The history of string theory spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers...

In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called...

In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape"...

type II string theory is a unified term that includes both type IIA strings and type IIB strings theories. Type II string theory accounts for two of the five...

'Superstring theory' is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory because unlike bosonic string theory, it is the version of string theory that accounts...

Bosonic string theory is the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s. It is so called because it contains only bosons in the spectrum...

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...

In string theory, a heterotic string is a closed string (or loop) which is a hybrid ('heterotic') of a superstring and a bosonic string. There are two...

Eleven-dimensional supergravity Theories studied in the branch of quantum field theory known as string theory. These theories are without supersymmetry. Polyakov...

of such a theory at a string theory conference at the University of Southern California in 1995. Witten's announcement initiated a flurry of research activity...

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...

nevertheless equivalent when employed as extra dimensions of string theory. Early cases of mirror symmetry were discovered by physicists. Mathematicians...

IIA string theory Type IIB string theory Heterotic string N=2 superstring M-theory Matrix theory Introduction to M-theory F-theory String field theory Matrix...

In physics, a string is a physical entity postulated in string theory and related subjects. Unlike elementary particles, which are zero-dimensional or...

theory. Twistorial formulae for interactions beyond the self-dual sector also arose in Witten's twistor string theory, which is a quantum theory of holomorphic...

physics, matrix string theory is a set of equations that describe superstring theory in a non-perturbative framework. Type IIA string theory can be shown...

E8 theory, noncommutative geometry, and causal fermion systems have not demonstrated any level of mathematical consistency. History of string theory Wolchover...

Twistor string theory is an equivalence between N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and the perturbative topological B model string theory in twistor...

theoretical physics, F-theory is a branch of string theory developed by Iranian-American physicist Cumrun Vafa. The new vacua described by F-theory were discovered...

dictionary. In string theory and related theories (such as supergravity), a brane is a physical object that generalizes the notion of a zero-dimensional...

D0-branes in Type IIA string theory. In geometry, it is often useful to introduce coordinates. For example, in order to study the geometry of the Euclidean plane...

Hořava–Witten theory argues that the cancellation of anomalies guarantees that a supersymmetric gauge theory with the E8 gauge group propagates on a type of domain...

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)...

cosmology refers to several theories in particle physics and cosmology related to string theory, superstring theory and M-theory. The central idea is that...

blocks of matter and light. Under string theory, strings are bundles of energy vibrating in complex ways in both the three familiar dimensions of space...

equivalence of two physical theories, which may be either quantum field theories or string theories. In the simplest example of this relationship, one of the...

common 4D of space and time and considered an important precursor to string theory. In their setup, the vacuum has the usual 3 dimensions of space and...

In physics, a Dirac string is a one-dimensional curve in space, conceived of by the physicist Paul Dirac, stretching between two hypothetical Dirac monopoles...

In string theory, a domain wall is a theoretical (d−1)-dimensional singularity. A domain wall is meant to represent an object of codimension one embedded...

non-critical string theory describes the relativistic string without enforcing the critical dimension. Although this allows the construction of a string theory in...