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Quantum fields, strings, and physical mathematics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-21 v1

Abstract

I briefly review several important formal theory developments in quantum field theory and string theory that were reported at ICHEP conferences in past decades, and explain how they underlie a new research area referred to as physical or quantum mathematics. To illustrate these ideas in some specific context, I discuss certain aspects of topological string theory and a recently discovered knots-quivers correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.2104.03350,
  title  = {Quantum fields, strings, and physical mathematics},
  author = {Piotr Sułkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03350},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages, plenary talk at the 40th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020)