U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research: String Field Theory

这一奖项将使CUNY城市学院的Bunji Sakita教授和Michio Kaku教授能够在两年内与日本大阪大学的Keiji Kikkawa教授合作。这些研究者将努力加深我们对弦场论的物理和数学性质以及时空紧凑化机制的理解，以构建弯曲时空中的弦场论。研究弦场理论的目的是为了理解我们时空的基本相互作用和几何学。美国和日本的两组调查人员都站在这项研究的前沿，尽管他们从不同的角度来处理这个问题。我们两国研究人员之间的合作将导致综合弦场理论领域的知识，并为这一领域的新进展奠定基础。

This award will enable Professors Bunji Sakita and Michio Kaku of the City College of CUNY to collaborate with Professor Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University, Japan over a two-year period. These investigators will strive to deepen our understanding of the physical and mathematical properties of string field theory and the mechanism of compactification of space-time in order to construct a field theory of string in the curved space-time. String field theory is studied for the purpose of understanding the fundamental interactions and geometry of our space-time. The two groups of investigators in the U.S. and Japan are both at the forefront of this research, despite the fact that they are approaching the problem from different points of view. Collaboration between investigators in our two countries will lead to a synthesis of knowledge in the area of string field theory and set the stage for new advances in this area.