New Perspectives on the Quest for Unification
Abstract
Description
Synthesizing older ideas about the 1/N expansion in gauge theory, the quantum mechanics of black holes, and quantum field theory in Anti de Sitter space, a new correspondence between gauge theory and quantum gravity has illuminated both subjects.
10 pp., opening lecture at the Erice School on Subnuclear Physics
10 pp., opening lecture at the Erice School on Subnuclear Physics