 OSU’s Arkady A. Tseytlin Dishes String/Gauge Duality
Since the late 1990s, the buzzword in the esoteric world of string
theory has been dualities, as in the duality between
electricity and magnetism described by Maxwell’s equations, or the duality
between particles and waves of quantum mechanics. Currently, the
obsession of string theorists is a very specific duality proposed in
1997 by Harvard’s Juan Maldacena, who posited that certain string
theory is equivalent to a kind of gauge theory not unlike those that
describe aspects of the universe in which we live.
Maldacena’s conjecture has led to a flood of research that has yet
to show signs of ebbing, and string theorists find themselves still
firmly ensconced in what they consider their latest string-theory
revolution. Among the leaders of this revolution is Arkady A. Tseytlin
of The Ohio State University. Tseytlin’s June 2002 article in Physical
Review D, "Exactly solvable model of superstring in plane wave
Ramond-Ramond background," co-authored with Ruslan R. Metsaev, has
now been cited more than 200 times (see table, page 4) and appeared in
the Physics Top Ten in 2004, most recently at #7 in the previous issue
(see Science Watch, 15[6]: 6, November/December
2004). Although...
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