Homepage of Markus Maute - Fundamental Physics

 

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.

Niels Bohr

 

 

Complexity/Chaos

Chaos Book

Entropic Nonextensivity: A measure of Complexity (Constantino Tsallis)



Beyond the Standard Model ?

Cosmic Ray Paradox (GZK-paradox)


Fundamental Constants

Observational Evidence for Two Cosmological Predictions Made by Bit-String Physics (H. Pierre Noyes)

Holographic Protection of Chronology in Universes of Gödel Type - "... cosmological backgrounds in string theory require an understanding of holography in more complicated environments, which may not exhibit canonical, observer-independent preferred screens at conformal infinity. Here, the prime example is given by de Sitter space: When viewed from the perspective of an inertial observer living in the static patch, the preferred holographic screen in de Sitter space is most naturally placed at the cosmological horizon. This leads to the fascinating idea of observer-dependent holographic screens, associated with a finite number of degrees of freedom accessible to the observer ..."



Matrix Models

Modular Matrix Models (Yang-Hui He, Vishnu Jejjla)


Quantum Mechanics

 

CFT
Lectures on Elliptic Functions and Modular Forms in Conformal Field Theory


Decoherence

Decoherence Web-Site by Erich Joos

 

Foundations/Interpretation

The story of nth quatization

 

Quantum Computing

Machines, Logic and Quantum Physics (David Deutsch/Artur Ekert/Rosella Lupacchini)

Information and Computation: Classical and Quantum Aspects (A. Galindo, M.A. Martin Delgado)


Quantum Logic

A Half Century of Quantum Logic - What have we Learnded?

Quantum Logic : Ordered Structures in Quantum Logic

Quantum Logic and Probability Theory

Operational Quantum Logic: An Overview



 

Lectures

An Axiomatic Approach to Conformal Field Theory (Peter Goddard) - "...no unitarity in this lecture ..."

Representation theory beyond affine Lie algebras (Igor Frenkel)

Self-Interacting Walk and Functional Integration (David Brydges)

Time and String Theory (Vijay Balasubramanian)



Loop Quantum Gravity

 

Throwing Einstein for a Loop (Scientific American)

How far are we from the Quantum Theory of Gravity (Lee Smolin)

Loop Quantum Gravity (Carlo Rovelli)

Quantum Geometry and Gravity: Recent Advances (Abhay Ashtekar)

 

Mathematics/Mathematical Physics

Division Algebras   

Quaternions

Octonions

 
Monster, Moonshine and Vertex Algebras

Monstrous Moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras (Richard E. Borcherds)

Monstrous Moonshine and the Classification of CFT (Terry Gannon)

Seventy Relatives of the Monster Module (A. N. Schellekens) - "...Recent work on the classification of conformal field theories with one primary field (the identity operator) is reviewed. The classification of such theories ... appears impossible in general. The last managable case, central charge 24, is considered here.  We found a total of 71 such theories ..., including the monster module ..."

What is the Monster (Richard E. Borcherds)

 

Miscellaneous

Algebraic Dreams (Pierre Ramond) - "...Patterns of the quantum numbers of the elementary particles point to their embedding in Exceptional Groups ... . The sequence E8 ⊃ E7 ⊃ E6 ⊃ SO(10) ⊃ SU(5) ⊃ SU(3) × SU(2) , obtained by chopping off one dot from these algebras’ Dynkin diagrams leads to the non-Abelian symmetries of the Standard Model.  This sequence is realized in the Heterotic string ... where the gauge algebra is E8 × E8. ..."


Relativity

 

Huge collection of Relativity Links

Lecture Notes on General Relativity (Sean M. Carroll) - An introduction to G.R. I can really recommend

Gravity and Gauge Theories (Stefen Weinstein)

The Unruh Effect - Why is it, that an accelerated observer is supposed to see particles, that an observer in the rest frame doesn't see ?



Superstring-/M-Theory

More or less non-technical introductions to Superstring- and M-theory

Superstring Tutorial (University of California)

"The second superstring revolution" ( John H. Schwarz)

"The Official String Theory Web Site"

"A World of Strings " (Nice animations !)

"The super G-String"


Somewhat technical overviews

State of the Unification Address (M. J. Duff)

Developments in Superstring Theory (Ashoke Sen)

Quantum Gravity at the Planck Length (Joseph Polchinski)

 

Technical introductions

Introduction to Superstring Theory (Elias Kiritsis)

Introduction to Superstring Theory (John H. Schwarz)



Finite in All Directions (Gregory Moore)

The Bosonic String

Bosonic M Theory (Gary T. Horowitz, Leonard Susskind)

Fermionic Subspaces of the Bosonic String - " ... A universal symmetric truncation of the bosonic string Hilbert space yields all known closed fermionic string theories in ten dimensions, their D-branes and their open descendants..."


 Biophysics

A simple derivation of the Gompertz law for human mortality (B. I. Shklovskii) - "... The probability, S(t), that a given nucleus will survive time t is S(t) = exp (-t/t0). If survival of humans were governed by the same law ... we would have millions of people with the age, say ... 350 years ... However the longest recorded human life lasted only 122 years. The famous astronomer Halley and the great mathematician Euler were the first to attack this problem ..."

Biological Universality yields new kind of Laws - "... the number of basal oxygen molecules, consumed per body atom per maximal l life span, is 12 ± 2.5 for all animals, whose body mass changes ~ 10 billion times... ...In spite of enormous biological complexity and diversity of animals, the laws reduce to the animal mass only. Such laws are inconsistent with known physics..."

Computer Simulations for Biological Ageing and Sexual Reproduction (D. Stauffer, P.M.C. de Oliveira, S. Moss de Oliveira, T.J.P. Penna and J.S. S´a Martins)
   

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