Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist who made profound contributions to String theory , Topological quantum field...

Louis Witten (born April 13, 1921) is an American theoretical physicist and the father of the physicist Edward Witten. Witten's research has centered...

physics that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string theory...

They are named after Mikhail Gromov and Edward Witten. The rigorous mathematical definition of Gromov–Witten invariants is lengthy and difficult, so it...

when Edward Witten suggested that the five theories were just special limiting cases of an eleven-dimensional theory called M-theory. Witten's conjecture...

3-dimensional topological quantum field theory of Schwarz type developed by Edward Witten. It was discovered first by mathematical physicist Albert Schwarz. It...

He has also been investigating (in particular, in a joint work with Edward Witten) connections between the geometric Langlands correspondence and dualities...

Seiberg–Witten invariants are invariants of compact smooth oriented 4-manifolds introduced by Edward Witten (1994), using the Seiberg–Witten theory studied...

field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Edward Witten. A WZW model is associated to a Lie group (or supergroup), and its symmetry...

of articles on education and women in science. Nappi is married to Edward Witten, a mathematical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced...

a Hořava–Witten domain wall, behaves as a boundary of the eleven-dimensional spacetime in M-theory. Proposed by Petr Hořava and Edward Witten, the theory...

language). The theory was studied in detail by Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten (Seiberg & Witten 1994). In general, effective Lagrangians of supersymmetric...

In theoretical physics, the Weinberg–Witten (WW) theorem, proved by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten, states that massless particles (either composite...

consequences of positivity. Research has been led by Nima Arkani-Hamed. Edward Witten described the work as "very unexpected" and said that "it is difficult...

In theoretical physics, the Vafa–Witten theorem, named after Cumrun Vafa and Edward Witten, is a theorem that shows that vector-like global symmetries...

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

theorem. Edward Witten, in 1982, gave the outlines of an alternative proof, which were later filled in rigorously by mathematicians. Witten and Yau were...

Nappi and Edward Witten. She is married to software engineer Ari Steinberg. Daniela Witten publications indexed by Google Scholar Daniela Witten at the Mathematics...

"Symmetries, inequalities and index theorems", under the supervision of Edward Witten. After his PhD degree, Vafa became a junior fellow via the Harvard Society...

"strange matter hypothesis", proposed separately by Arnold Bodmer and Edward Witten. According to this hypothesis, when a large enough number of quarks...

the Witten conjecture is a conjecture about intersection numbers of stable classes on the moduli space of curves, introduced by Edward Witten in the...

Chern–Simons theory and gravity during the 1980s. During this period, Edward Witten argued that 2+1D topological gravity is equivalent to a Chern–Simons...

medal as of 2022. With the exception of two PhD holders in physics (Edward Witten and Martin Hairer), only people with a PhD in mathematics have won the...

students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin, Simon Donaldson, and Edward Witten. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory...

supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory. Recent work of Anton Kapustin and Edward Witten suggests that Montonen–Olive duality is closely related to a research...

area with his wife and two sons. He is the son of Louis Witten and the brother of Edward Witten, both of whom are theoretical physicists. The Deal (1989)...

their electric charges must all be equal modulo 1. The Witten effect, demonstrated by Edward Witten in his 1979 paper, states that the electric charges of...

Ramanujan a century ago . In his subsequent work with Pavel Putrov and Edward Witten he showed that mock modularity is generic and essential for exhibiting...

have included Nobel Prize laureate Roderick MacKinnon, Fields Medalist Edward Witten, and co-creators of the television show Friends David Crane and Marta...

The official statement of the problem was given by Arthur Jaffe and Edward Witten. Mathematics portal Beal conjecture Hilbert's problems List of mathematics...