Professor Nambu, string theory, and the moonshine phenomenon

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTW132MaRDI QIDQ5347225zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tohru Eguchi

Publication date 22 May 2017

Published in PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06036

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: I first recall the last occasion of meeting the late Professor Yoichiro Nambu in a hospital in Osaka. I then present a brief introduction to the moonshine phenomenon in string theory which is under recent investigations.

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