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Exploring General Relativity as a Gauge Theory
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The fundamental interactions of the Standard Model are described by Yang-Mills theory. This is a gauge theory, which means the following: (1) Choose a…
11d Gravity From Just the Torsion Constraint
It is familiar that Einstein gravity may be formulated in terms of a vielbein field together with a "spin connection", subject to the constraint…
Learn About Supersymmetry and Deligne’s Theorem
In 2002, Pierre Deligne proved a remarkable theorem on what mathematically is called Tannakian reconstruction of tensor categories. Here…
Garrett Lisi’s Superparticle Bet With Frank Wilczek
There is an interesting story unfolding in particle physics. The main motivation for building the Large Hadron Collider was to search for new particles.…