New trends in string theory

[CCC]

Hi.
Can anyone explain me the recent trends in string theory with the
reference of the main papers? (last mounths)
Thanks a lot!
Bye
CarlitoCarribeanCool

[CCC]

CCC ha scritto:

> Hi.
> Can anyone explain me the recent trends in string theory with the
> reference of the main papers? (last mounths)
> Thanks a lot!
> Bye
> CarlitoCarribeanCool

Can anyone to answare? Please!
CCC

[Robert C. Helling]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:24:59 -0500, CCC <nospam@nonono.no> wrote:

> CCC ha scritto:
>
>> Hi.
>> Can anyone explain me the recent trends in string theory with the
>> reference of the main papers? (last mounths)
>> Thanks a lot!
>> Bye
>> CarlitoCarribeanCool
>
> Can anyone to answare? Please!

You don't get an answer because your question is far too vague and
unspecific. It's like asking 'what are the recent trends in literature
point me to good books'. Ask concrete questions and you will get
answers. Meanwhile have a look at http://www.arxiv.org and then
hep-th.

Robert


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[Lubos Motl]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Robert C. Helling wrote:

> You don't get an answer because your question is far too vague and
> unspecific.

I don't think that the question What are the main trends in a scientific
field in the last couple of months is a vague question.

> It's like asking 'what are the recent trends in literature point me to
> good books'.

Let us hope that string theory has not yet degenerated to the level of
literature and that it has not yet adopted its (lit crit) methods to
judge the value of ideas.

The last couple of months have not created any major trends that everyone
would find extraordinarily powerful but people continue to work on trends
that have been hot for two years or so, such as the higher order
corrections to black hole entropy, relations to topological strings, flux
vacua, landscape, swampland, general predictions of string theory, as well
as 3-year-old trends such as integrability in AdS/CFT + Bethe Ansaetze and
many others.

If you ask at a better moment, you may get a more focused and exciting
answer. In that case, it is likely that you get the answer before you ask
the question. ;-)

Best wishes
LM
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[CCC]

> Let us hope that string theory has not yet degenerated to the level of
> literature and that it has not yet adopted its (lit crit) methods to
> judge the value of ideas.
>
> The last couple of months have not created any major trends that
> everyone would find extraordinarily powerful but people continue to work
> on trends that have been hot for two years or so, such as the higher
> order corrections to black hole entropy, relations to topological
> strings, flux vacua, landscape, swampland, general predictions of string
> theory, as well as 3-year-old trends such as integrability in AdS/CFT +
> Bethe Ansaetze and many others.
>
> If you ask at a better moment, you may get a more focused and exciting
> answer. In that case, it is likely that you get the answer before you
> ask the question. ;-)
>
> Best wishes
> LM

Thanks a lot!
CCC

[Blake Stacey]

On Thurs, Mar 2 2006 Lubos Motl wrote:

> Let us hope that string theory has not yet degenerated to the level of
> literature and that it has not yet adopted its (lit crit) methods to
> judge the value of ideas.

Can't we get Alan Sokal to test this for us? (-;

Best,
Blake