Novel Approaches to Outstanding Problems in M/Superstring Theory, Supergravity and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

M/超弦理论、超引力和超对称规范理论中突出问题的新方法

• 批准号: 1213183
• 负责人: Murat Gunaydin
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1213183&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Novel; Approaches; Outstanding; Problems; Superstring

This award funds the research activities of Professors Murat Gunaydin and Radu Roiban at Penn State University. The research of Professors Gunaydin and Roiban focuses on investigations which are envisioned to help uncover the underlying principles of M/Superstring theory as well as their connection to traditional high-energy particle physics. As such, this project focuses on a number of topics at the interface of string theory, M theory, and supergravity, including studies of conformal field theory, AdS/CFT dualities, and new supergravity theories in six dimensions. The ultimate goal of this research is to uncover a non-perturbative formulation of M/Superstring theory that can explain the observable universe. This project is also envisioned to have significant broader impacts. Because symmetry principles play a fundamental role in all of modern physics, the methods developed and the results obtained through this research will have applications in other areas of theoretical physics as well as in mathematics. This project will also involve the education and training of graduate students and postdocs who participate in this research.

该奖项为宾夕法尼亚州立大学的穆拉特·古纳丁（Murat Gunaydin）和拉杜·罗班（Radu Roiban）教授的研究活动提供了资金。 Gunaydin和Roiban教授的研究专注于调查，这些调查旨在帮助揭示M/Superstring理论的基本原理及其与传统高能粒子物理学的联系。 因此，该项目重点介绍了字符串理论，M理论和超级界面的许多主题，包括对保形场理论的研究，ADS/CFT二元性以及在六个维度中的新超级理论。 这项研究的最终目的是揭示M/SuperString理论的非扰动表述，该理论可以解释可观察到的宇宙。 还设想该项目具有更广泛的影响。 由于对称原理在所有现代物理学中都起着基本作用，因此开发的方法以及通过这项研究获得的结果将在理论物理和数学的其他领域中应用。 该项目还将涉及参加这项研究的研究生和博士后的教育和培训。