Elementary Particle Theory

拟议的研究涉及膜、超对称性和无质量更高自旋规范理论的各个方面。这些都是十维弦理论和十一维薄膜理论的关键成分，为描述包括重力在内的所有自然力提供了一个统一的框架。由于我们的世界是将四维时空嵌入到这些更高的维度中，信息的编码可以是全息的，在高能量下，新的对称性可能会出现。这一提议意在寻求对这些新发展的更深层次的了解，并系统地研究更高维度的超引力理论。

The proposed research involves various aspects of branes, Supersymmetry and massless higher spin gauge theories. These are key ingredients of string theory in ten dimensions and membrane theory in eleven dimensions providing a unified framework for describing all the forces of nature including gravity. Since our world is an embedding of four dimensional space-time in these higher dimensions, the encoding of information can be holographic and at high energies new symmetries can arise. This proposal intends to search for deeper understanding of these new developments and to systematically study supergravity theories in higher dimensions.