An Algebraic Approach to M/Superstring Theory and Supergravity

该奖项支持理论基本粒子物理的研究，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关于M/超弦理论和相关超引力理论的理论的一致框架。万有引力，是成功的包括重力在内的所有相互作用的统一理论的一个有前途的候选者。在某些低能区域，M/超弦理论可以有效地用超引力理论来描述。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非微扰的M/超弦理论公式，可以解释我们周围的宇宙。对称性原理是所有现代物理的基础。因此，在这项研究中发展的一些方法和所获得的结果将在理论物理的其他领域以及在数学中得到应用。研究生将参与这项研究。

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.