An Algebraic Approach to M/Superstring Theory and Supergravity

该奖项支持理论基本粒子物理学的研究，M/超弦理论为我们提供了唯一已知的协调量子力学与爱因斯坦的理论（M/超弦理论和相关的超引力理论）的一致框架。重力和是一个很有希望的候选成功的统一理论的所有相互作用，包括重力。在某些低能量状态下，M/超弦理论可以用超引力理论有效地描述。然而，目前M/超弦理论的物理和数学基础还没有得到很好的理解。这个项目的目的是解决这个领域的一些突出问题，最终目标是找到一个可以解释我们周围宇宙的M/超弦理论的非摄动公式。对称原理是所有现代物理学的基础。因此，在本研究中开发的一些方法和获得的结果将在理论物理的其他领域以及数学中得到应用。研究生将参与研究。

This award supports research in theoretical elementary particle physics M/Superstring Theory provides us with the only known consistent framework for reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory offocused on M/Superstring Theory and related supergravity theories. The gravity and is a promising candidate for a successful unified theory of all interactions including gravity. At certain low energy regimes M/Superstring Theory can be effectively described by supergravity theories. However currently the physical as well as mathematical underpinnings of M/Superstring theory are not well understood. The aim of this project is to solve some of the outstanding problems in this field towards the eventual goal of finding a non-perturbative formulation of M/Superstring theory that can explain the universe around us. Symmetry principles underlie all of modern physics.Hence some of the methods developed and the results obtained in thisresearch will have applications in other areas of theoretical physics as well as in mathematics. Graduate students will be involved in the research.