Workshop
Plane Wave Geometry and Quantum Physics
- Matthias Blau (Switzerland)
Abstract
As an embryonic example of the interplay between geometry and quantum physics in string theory (an example that requires neither knowledge nor appreciation of string theory but also does not do justice to the depth and richness of these ideas in the string theory context), we consider the interplay between geometric properties of plane wave space-time metrics on the one hand and corresponding statements about quantum (gauge) theories on the other.