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We consider a thought experiment in which an energetic massless string probes a "stringhole" (a heavy string lying on the correspondence curve between strings and black holes) at large enough impact parameter for the regime to be under…
This is a brief review of the present status, of some recent developments and of the open challenges in string/M theory.
The intersection of string theory with cosmology is unavoidable in the early universe, and its exploration may shine light on both fields. In this thesis, three papers at this intersection are presented and reviewed, with the aim of…
String field theory is a candidate for a full non-perturbative definition of string theory. We aim to define string field theory on a space-time lattice to investigate its behaviour at the quantum level. Specifically, we look at string…
We comment on the relation between string theory and empirical science, grounding our discussion in cosmology, a subject with increasingly precise data in which this connection operates at several levels. It is important to take into…
This paper has been withdrawn to provide a more rigorous proof of the converse of Theorem 1 and Lemma 1 as well.
We find it absurd that Walliser [1] essentially used the same analysis and obtained identical results as reported in [3], yet arrived at different conclusions. Namely, based on an incomplete theory and using erroneous arguments, he not only…
T-duality of string theory suggests nonlocality manifested as the shortest possible distance. As an alternative, we suggest a nonlocal formulation of string theory that breaks T-duality at the fundamental level and does not require the…
We describe the detailed study and results of high-resolution numerical simulations of string-induced structure formation in open universes and those with a non-zero cosmological constant. The effect from small loops generated from the…
Cosmic strings are topological defects possibly formed in the early Universe, which may be observable due to their gravitational effects on the cosmic microwave background radiation or gravitational wave experiments. To this effect it is…
This article contains a short review of the current status of string theory.
The main result of this paper, Simon's conjecture for fibered knots, was previously proven by Silver and Whitten math.GT/0405462 with essentially the same proof. This paper is therefore being withdrawn. The author would like to apologize…
There is a serious mistake in the proof.
We show that the bunkbed conjecture remains true when gluing along a vertex. As immediate corollaries, we obtain that the bunkbed conjecture is true for forests and that a minimal counterexample to the bunkbed conjecture is 2-connected.
This paper shows that the interpolation theorem fails in the intuitionistic logic of constant domains. This result refutes two previously published claims that the interpolation property holds.
The author comments on [1]. One of the deformed actions can express the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond superstring under three gauge conditions. One of these depends on a matrix induced by the string coordinate.
We report on a test of the Maldacena conjecture. This string/field theory correspondence has interesting applications. When combined with Rehren's theorem, it has implications for issues concerning space-time structure and Lorentz symmetry.…
As was shown by Aharony, Hanany and Kol and independently by Sen, type IIB string theory admits configurations where strings of different charges (p_i, q_i) form so-called string networks. We argue that these networks blow up into…
We present a simple new method for proving that languages are not regular. We prove the correctness of the method, illustrate the ease of using the method on well-known examples of nonregular languages, and prove two additional theorems on…
This presentation is intended to give a flavour of the physics to be studied and discovered by exploiting the interface between string theory, M-theory and field theory provided by the dynamics of extended objects called `branes', and their…