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2 + 1 dimensional gravity as an exactly soluble system

scholarly article by Edward Witten published December 1988 in Nuclear Physics B

A new proof of the positive energy theorem

A theory of everything?

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research: Invited article on entanglement properties of quantum field theory

2018 article in Reviews of Modern Physics

Adelic string amplitudes

An interpretation of classical Yang-Mills theory

article

Anomalies, dualities, and topology of D = 6 N = 1 superstring vacua

Anomalous cross section for photon-photon scattering in gauge theories

Answering critics can add fuel to controversy

scientific article published in Nature

Averaging over Narain moduli space

scientific article published in October 2020

Axion topological field theory of topological superconductors

scientific article

Black hole entropy in M-Theory

scholarly article by Juan Martín Maldacena et al published 7 December 1997 in Journal of High Energy Physics

Chiral Rings and Anomalies in Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2002 no. 12, December 2002

Chiral rings and phases of supersymmetric gauge theories

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2003 no. 4, April 2003

Circling the inverse square

scientific article published in Nature

Comments on string dynamics in six dimensions

article

Conformal Supergravity in Twistor-String Theory

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2004 no. 8, August 2004

Conformal gravity in three dimensions as a gauge theory

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Cosmic separation of phases

scientific article

Current algebra theorems for the U(1) “Goldstone boson”

scholarly article by Edward Witten published September 1979 in Nuclear Physics B

D-branes and K-theory

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 1998)

Detectability of certain dark-matter candidates

scientific article published on 01 June 1985

Direct Proof of the Tree-Level Scattering Amplitude Recursion Relation in Yang-Mills Theory

scientific article

Dyons of charge eθ/2π

Electric and magnetic charges in superstring models

scholarly article

Electric-magnetic duality and the geometric Langlands program

article published in 2007

Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

scholarly article

Eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary

Evidence for heterotic/heterotic duality

article

Fayet-Iliopoulos terms in string theory

Fermionic localization of the schwarzian theory

scientific article published in October 2017

Fivebranes and knots

Gapped boundary phases of topological insulators via weak coupling

Gauge Theory and the Analytic Form of the Geometric Langlands Program

scientific article published in 2022

Geometric endoscopy and mirror symmetry

scientific article published in 2008

Global aspects of current algebra

scholarly article by Edward Witten published August 1983 in Nuclear Physics B

Gluino condensation in superstring models

article

Gravitational anomalies

Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions

article

Instability of the Kaluza-Klein vacuum

Limits on massless particles

M-theory dynamics on a manifold of G2 holonomy

scientific article published in 2002

MHV Vertices And Tree Amplitudes In Gauge Theory

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2004 no. 9, September 2004

Matrix models and deformations of JT gravity

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Monopoles and four-manifolds

article published in 1994

Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N = 2 supersymmetric QCD

scientific article (publication date: December 1994)

New = 2 superconformal field theories in four dimensions

Non-abelian bosonization in two dimensions

Non-archimedean string dynamics

article

Nonperturbative effects on the string world sheet

Nonperturbative effects on the string world sheet (II)

On background-independent open-string field theory

scientific article published on 01 December 1992

On quantum gauge theories in two dimensions

On the structure of the topological phase of two-dimensional gravity

scholarly article by Edward Witten published August 1990 in Nuclear Physics B

Parity Conservation in Quantum Chromodynamics

scientific article

Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space

Phases of Script N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2003 no. 2, February 2003

Quantum Mechanics of Black Holes

scientific article published on 01 August 2012

Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial

Quantum gravity partition functions in three dimensions

scholarly article by Alexander Maloney & Edward Witten published February 2010 in Journal of High Energy Physics

Role of short distance behavior in off-shell open-string field theory.

scientific article

Search for a realistic Kaluza-Klein theory

Some Exact Multipseudoparticle Solutions of Classical Yang-Mills Theory

scientific article

Some computations in background-independent off-shell string theory

scientific article published on 01 April 1993

Space-time and topological orbifolds

scientific article published on 01 August 1988

Spin structures in string theory

Static properties of nucleons in the Skyrme model

article

String Theory Dynamics In Various Dimensions

article

String theory and black holes

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

String theory and noncommutative geometry

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 1999 no. 9, September 1999

Supersymmetry and Morse theory

The D1/D5 system and singular CFT

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 1999 no. 4, April 1999

The Hagedorn transition and the number of degrees of freedom of string theory

article published in 1988

The Hagedorn transition in noncommutative open string theory

The holes are defined by the string

scientific article published in Nature

The mass question

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

The omega deformation, branes, integrability and Liouville theory

scholarly article in Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 no. 9, September 2010

Topological quantum field theory

scientific article published in 1988

Topological sigma models

article

Twistor magic

scientific article published in Nature

Two-dimensional gravity and intersection theory on moduli space

scholarly article by Edward Witten published 1990 in Journal of Differential Geometry

Unravelling string theory

scientific article published in Nature

Vacuum configurations for superstrings

Wess-Zumino-Witten model based on a nonsemisimple group

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

When symmetry breaks down

scientific article published in Nature