String Theory Seminar
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 2:45pm, 119 Physics
Robert Karp (Virginia Tech)
A convex optimization problem in string theory
Abstract:- For nearly 25 years Calabi-Yau spaces have played a central role in
string theory, yet no explicit metric was known. I will outline ideas
pioneered by Donaldson and Yau that lead to such metrics numerically;
then extend this approach to solving the hermitian Yang-Mills equation,
and also obtain metrics on moduli spaces. Knowledge of these quantities
is unavoidable for physical predictions. [video]
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