Questions tagged [string-theory]
A class of theories that attempt to explain all existing particles (including force carriers) as vibrational modes of extended objects, such as the 1-dimensional fundamental string.
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Are perfect matching counts of brane tilings invariant under Galois conjugation?
Let $\Gamma$ be a brane tiling — a bipartite graph embedded on a torus $T^2$, arising in the physics of D3-branes at toric Calabi-Yau singularities. The number of perfect matchings of $\Gamma$ is a ...
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Relations between spherical twist functors induced by resolution of diagonal
Consider the resolved $\mathbb{C}^3/\mathbb{Z}_3$-orbifold $X$ with exceptional divisor $E \cong \mathbb{P}^2$; it is well known that $X$ may be viewed as the total space of the line bundle ...
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New series for $\pi$ from string theory
This is a direct followup to the post Possible new series for $\pi$ by Timothy Chow
and its numerous answers and comments.
Using another formula in the same string theory paper by Saha and Sinha one ...
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modular properties of macmahon function?
How does the MacMahon function for counting plane partitions
$M(q) = \frac{1}{(1-q^n)^n}$
behave under modular transformations?
For instance for $q= e^{2 \pi i \tau}$ where $\tau \rightarrow -1/\tau$.
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Comparison between two volume forms on genus zero Teichmüller space
Consider a sphere with $n$ punctures. If you pick a holomorphic cotangent vector at each puncture, you can canonically construct a holomorphic top form in the corresponding moduli space. (The specific ...
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What is this correspondence between composition algebras over R and superstring theories?
In the page for superstring theory, Wikipedia states:
Another approach to the number of superstring theories refers to the mathematical structure called composition algebra. In the findings of ...
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how to derive this elliptic integral?
I am reading the article arXiv: 2207.09961, there are some interesting elliptic integrals, i.e. the formula (3.7) and (3.8). You can also see this image
where $p_0(z)=\sqrt{-Q_0(z)}$ and $Q_0(z)=-\...
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Divisor cohomology through spectral sequences
I don't know if it belongs here but anyway, I need to compute arithmetic genus of divisors pulled back from a Fano base space to a bundle (which may or mayn't be trivial) defined through the ...
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NSR superstring as a map of supermanifolds
On one hand, I know that the NSR superstring is described by a map $\Phi: \Sigma \to X$, where $\Sigma$ is a supermanifold with local coordinates $(\sigma,\theta)=(\sigma^0,\sigma^1 | \bar{\theta},\...
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What are "branes", and why do they form a category?
I've been trying to read Kapustin–Witten - Electric–Magnetic Duality And The Geometric Langlands Program recently, as someone whose mathematical interests are in the Langlands program. I have some ...
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Freeman Dyson's approach to string theory [closed]
Context:
In celebrating the centenary of Ramanujan's birth, Freeman Dyson presented the following career advice for talented young physicists [1]:
My dream is that I will live to see the day when our ...
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Axiomatic string theory?
There have been many proposal of a mathematical definition of Quantum Field Theory, for instance through Wightman or Osterwalder-Schrader axioms. Were there any efforts toward doing the same for ...
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What is known about the cohomology of the U-duality group?
$\newcommand{\Es}{E_{7(7)}}\newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb Z}$Let $\Es$ denote the split form of $E_7$, which is a real Lie
group. It can be characterized as the subgroup of $\mathrm{Sp}_{56}(\mathbb R)$ ...
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Enumerative geometry and restricted plane partitions
Donaldson-Thomas theory is an enumerative theory for virtual counts of ideal sheaves (with trivial determinant) of the structural sheaf $\mathcal{O}_{X}$ of some smooth projective manifold $X$.
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Physical Approach to Knot Categorification
Some recent work by Aganagic on knot categorification, Knot Categorification from Mirror Symmetry, Part II: Lagrangians, discusses two categorical approaches to categorification of quantum link ...
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