The search for higher symmetry in string theory
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- 17 November 1989
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 329 (1605) , 349-357
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1989.0082
Abstract
Some remarks are made about the nature and role of the search for higher symmetry in string theory. These symmetries are most likely to be uncovered in a mysterious ‘unbroken phase’, for which (2+ 1)-dimensional gravity provides an interesting and soluble model. New insights about conformal field theory, in which one gets ‘out of flatland’ to see a wider symmetry from a higher-dimensional vantage point, may offer clues to the unbroken phase of string theoryKeywords
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