Pei-Ming Ho Department of Physics, NTU March 2006
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Pei-Ming HoDepartment of Physics,
NTUMarch 2006
Spacetime for Strings
What is spacetime?
Spacetime in Einstein’s theory
• The Riemannian geometric property (notion of distance and curvature, etc.) of the spacetime is dynamically determined by the theory.
• Gravity geometrized.
• Field equations determine the motion of particles.
Why is D = 3+1 ?
Einstein’s theory vs. Strings
• The dimension of spacetime, the geometric structure (Riemann) are put in by hand.
• Singularities.• Quantization? information paradox• String theory is a consistent (and comput
able) theory of quantum gravity approximated by Einstein’s theory at low energies.
at Planck scale
A naïve combination of GR and QM suggests that the classical notion of spacetime breaks down at the Planck scale (1019 GeV, 10-33 cm).
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What is quantum spacetime?We need a theory of quantum gravity.String theory is essentially our only hope.
What is string
theory?
particle → string
oscillation modes → particles-1-0.500.51
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unique interaction
solitons
• There are solitons called D-branes.
• D-branes come in various dimensions.
• There are open strings ending on D-branes.
This idea about strings leads to very complicated mathematical problems, but surprisingly the theory has many nice and interesting properties.
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5. 學術界:•李仁吉教授,美國賓州大學物理博士,專長:場論、弦論。
• http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/~pmho
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Strings everywhere!
about string theory
• String theory is not yet experimentally verified. (But this is not a geometry-independent question…)
• String Theory includes Quantum Gravity.• The spacetime is 10 dimensional for super
string theory (11 for M theory, 12 for F theory, 5 fo
r IIB in AdS, 1 for BFSS and 0 for IKKT).
Kaluza-Klein w. Calabi-Yau
Brane WorldBrane World
fundamental strings
• Spacetime = target space of the fields living on the string worldsheet:
• Dimension is determined by symmetry.
• High energy limit is smooth, not spiky.
• Change of variables / field redefinition different interpretation of spacetime
1,,1,0),,( DX
T-duality
Winding modes are interchanged with momentum modes.
probe-dependence
• fundamental string or soliton (D-brane)« S-duality interchanges F1 and D1. »
• Geometric properties can not be completely separated from interactions.Example:Noncommutative geometry[ x, y ] = ic Δx Δy ≥ c
theory-dependence
• M theory (11D) IIA superstring theory (10D)
• All 5 superstring theories are equivalent.
• Holography:
Q. Gravity in higher dimensions Local field theories in lower dimensions.
Example: AdS/CFT duality.
IIB superstring in AdS SYM in 4 dim.
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