New Perspectives on the Quest for Unification
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812208,
title = {New Perspectives on the Quest for Unification},
author = {Edward Witten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812208},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pp., opening lecture at the Erice School on Subnuclear Physics