Workshop: M Theory in the City

工作坊：城市中的M理论

• 批准号: EP/E029345/1
• 负责人: David Berman
• 金额: $ 1.15万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FE029345%2F1
• 关键词: Workshop; Theory; City

Over ten years ago a fundamental eleven dimension theory was proposed called M theory which unifies all known string theories. Much progress has been made since then in studying this mysterious theory, but so far a truly compelling formulation of M theory has proved elusive. It seems clear that a description using conventional string perturbative methods will not be appropriate, and efforts have instead focussed on exploring the different aspects of the theory which are amenable to study, such as the structure and low energy dynamics of M-branes, non-standard geometries in M theory, the appearance and formulation of dualities, the role of M-branes in entropy counting of black objects and the fundamental symmetries of the theory. All of this work has provided clues as to the nature of M theory, and we believe that it is essential to probe further into this fundamental question.

十多年前，提出了一种称为 M 理论的基本十一维理论，它统一了所有已知的弦理论。从那时起，在研究这个神秘的理论方面已经取得了很大进展，但迄今为止，M 理论的真正令人信服的表述还被证明是难以捉摸的。显然，使用传统的弦微扰方法进行描述是不合适的，相反，人们的努力集中在探索该理论中值得研究的不同方面，例如M膜的结构和低能动力学、M理论中的非标准几何、对偶性的出现和表述、M膜在黑色物体熵计数中的作用以及该理论的基本对称性。所有这些工作都为M理论的本质提供了线索，我们认为有必要进一步探讨这个基本问题。