Turing's Landscape: decidability, computability and complexity in string theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
I argue that questions of algorithmic decidability, computability and complexity should play a larger role in deciding the "ultimate" theoretical description of the Landscape of string vacua. More specifically, I examine the notion of the average rank of the (unification) gauge group in the Landscape, the explicit construction of Ricci-flat metrics on Calabi-Yau manifolds as well as the computability of fundamental periods to show that undecidability questions are far more pervasive than that described in the work of Denef and Douglas.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0909.1869,
title = {Turing's Landscape: decidability, computability and complexity in string theory},
author = {Abhijnan Rej},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1869},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, entry for the 2009 FQXI Essay Contest