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Steven Gubser
My specialty is string theory, which is a branch of high
energy physics that incorporates both quantum mechanics
and gravity in one unified framework. Although string
theorists do not yet understand their theory well enough
to make experimentally testable predictions, it is arguably the most
credible attempt to date to find a complete formulation of fundamental physics.
I have worked on matrix models of quantum gravity, the string theoretic
description of black hole entropy and Hawking radiation, and the AdS/CFT
duality. AdS/CFT provides a direct relation between gravity and gauge
theory that allows us to study certain questions in strongly coupled
quantum mechanical systems using the classical equations of General
Relativity. This subject remains my main current area of interest,
particularly in relation to renormalization group flows, but also in the context of brane-world cosmology.
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- "Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory."
By S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov. Feb 1998.
Published in Phys.Lett. B428:105-114, 1998
e-Print Archive:
hep-th/9802109
- "Absorption of fixed scalars and the D-brane approach to black holes."
By C.G. Callan, Jr., S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.A. Tseytlin. Oct 1996.
Published in Nucl.Phys. B489:65-94, 1997
e-Print Archive:
hep-th/9610172
Endorsed by
EIPL Particle Physics
- "Scaling functions for baby universes in two-dimensional quantum gravity."
By Steven S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov. Oct 1993.
Published in Nucl.Phys. B416:827-849, 1994. e-Print Archive:
hep-th/9310098
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