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词条 Stephen Shenker
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  1. Work

  2. Selected works

  3. References

  4. External links

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Stephen Hart Shenker (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His brother Scott Shenker is a computer scientist.

Work

Shenker's contributions to physics include:

  • Basic results on the phase structure of gauge theories (with Eduardo Fradkin)
  • Basic results on two dimensional conformal field theory and its relation to string theory (with Daniel Friedan, Emil Martinec, Zongan Qiu, and others)
  • The nonperturbative formulation of matrix models of low-dimensional string theory, the first nonperturbative definitions of string theory (with Michael R. Douglas)
  • The discovery of distinctively stringy nonperturbative effects in string theory, later understood to be caused by D-branes. These effects play a major role in string dynamics
  • The discovery of Matrix Theory, the first nonperturbative definition of String/M theory in a physical number of dimensions. Matrix Theory (see Matrix string theory) is an example of a gauge/gravity duality and is now understood to be a special case of the AdS/CFT correspondence (with Tom Banks, Willy Fischler and Leonard Susskind)
  • Basic results on the connection between quantum gravity and quantum chaos (with Douglas Stanford, Juan Maldacena and others)

Selected works

  • {{cite journal |last1=Fidkowski |first1=Lukasz |last2=Hubeny |first2=Veronika |authorlink2= Veronika Hubeny |last3=Kleban |first3=Matthew |authorlink3= Matthew Kleban |last4=Shenker |first4=Stephen |title=The Black Hole Singularity in AdS/CFT |journal=Journal of High Energy Physics |date=6 February 2004 |volume=2004 |issue=2 |doi=10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/014|arxiv=hep-th/0306170 |bibcode=2004JHEP...02..014F }}

References

1. ^LCCN: Shenker, Stephen Hart

External links

  • home page of Stephen Shenker at Stanford
  • home page of Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
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