Nathan Seiberg

Research

• Mathematical foundations of rational 2-dimensional CFTs.
• Discovery of some of the first examples of "Seiberg Duals", numerous and ever growing disparate theories that are dynamically equivalent to another at low energy
• papers from the early 1990s about the application of holomorphy to calculations in gauge theories with supersymmetry, including a solution of N=1 four-dimensional gauge theories such as SQCD. He later used renormalization group methods to obtain a 3d Seiberg dual for his 4D SQCD
• articles about the strong-weak duality in the context of supersymmetric gauge theories
• papers about the complete solution of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four and three dimensions
• a paper on Matrix theory and M theory in the discrete Light-Cone Quantization
• his and Edward Witten's analysis of the appearance of non-commutative geometry in theories containing open strings, and an identification of a low energy limit of open string dynamics as a noncommutative quantum field theory
• OM-theory
• In recent years, partly with Witten, T. Senthil and others, results in Chern-Simons theories and non-supersymmetric field theory dualities of high relevance to condensed matter theory.

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