Timeline for What exactly is the relation between string theory and conformal field theory?
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| May 8, 2020 at 10:50 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | String theory is not basic physics, most physicists don't learn string theory (or supersymmetry). | |
| Oct 11, 2011 at 14:37 | vote | accept | Minhyong Kim | ||
| Oct 11, 2011 at 2:26 | history | edited | Jeff Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a final paragraph in response to an edit of the original question.
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| Oct 11, 2011 at 2:09 | comment | added | Minhyong Kim | By the way, I've updated the question a bit. If you have time, I would very much appreciate further clarification. Thanks again. | |
| Oct 11, 2011 at 0:09 | comment | added | Minhyong Kim | Heh. What I meant was that it's probably very basic deficiencies that keep me from understanding the advanced stuff. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 18:54 | comment | added | Jeff Harvey | Jose, I certainly agree there are subtleties that I didn't try to address. At least for open string theory my limited understanding is that one can construct Witten's OSFT from an abstract CFT in such a way that the classical equations of motion are trivially satisfied. p.s. I apologize for my Tex incompetence in not being able to figure out how to put the correct accent on your name. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 18:28 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Jeff: but in the context of "strings without strings" that I mentioned, how do you get a classical solution of the spacetime fields from an abstract CFT? | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 17:23 | comment | added | Jeff Harvey | If string theory is basic physics then arithmetic algebraic geometry is basic math. ;) | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:49 | comment | added | Minhyong Kim | Thank you very much for your nice answer, which I do not doubt is the correct one. Sadly (for me), it confirms the original fear that my grasp of basic physics is woefully inadequate. | |
| Oct 10, 2011 at 15:34 | history | answered | Jeff Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |