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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.

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@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}
}

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10 pages, entry for the 2009 FQXI Essay Contest

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