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Mathematical “urban legends”
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What makes four dimensions special?
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What is the motivation for a vertex algebra?
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Does Physics need non-analytic smooth functions?
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Is the Mendeleev table explained in quantum mechanics?
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Examples of non-rigorous but efficient mathematical methods in physics
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What kind of Lagrangians can we have?
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What exactly is the relation between string theory and conformal field theory?
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Mathematician trying to learn string theory
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mirror symmetry with algebraic geometry?
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String theory “computation” for math undergrad audience
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On the periods in the periodic table (or Why is a noble gas stable?)
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photon propagator
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Topology of black holes
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How are the classifying space of $E_8$ and $K(\mathbb{Z},4)$ related?
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Explanation for E_8’s torsion
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Is there a relation between 4-dimentional general relativity and exotic smooth structures on $\mathbb{R}^4$?
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Bimonster and Heterotic String Theory
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Is there a “right” proof of Riemann’s Theta Relation?
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Meaning of a phrase from “The algebra of grand unified theories”.
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The use of Hall algebras in physics
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Higgs mechanism from a deformation quantization point of view
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abelian higgs vortices
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Applications of n-dimensional crystallographic groups
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What do correlation functions compute in CFT?
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Relation between TQFT and Wilson lines, boundary conditions, surface defects etc