Chiara Nappi
Chiara R. Nappi (* in Italy ) is an Italian-American theoretical physicist .
Nappi obtained her physics diploma in Naples in 1976 , where she was a student of Giovanni Jona-Lasinio . She then went to Harvard University and Princeton University in the USA . From 1980 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (from 1988 as a long-term member). From 1999 she was a professor at the University of Southern California and from 2001 at Princeton University.
She dealt with theoretical elementary particle physics, mathematical physics ( constructive quantum field theory , statistical mechanics) and string theory . At first she dealt with mathematically strict models of statistical mechanics. In the late 1980s she dealt with the Skyrmion representation of nucleons and then turned to string theory, for example the construction of effective effects at low energy (construction of Lagrangian of the Fierz-Pauli and Born-Infeld type and the influence of higher loop corrections and Boundary conditions) and string phenomenology. She also dealt with, among other things, open strings in background fields, black hole solutions in string theory especially in two dimensions and the connection to the AdS-CFT correspondence , string cosmology, non-commutativity in string theory and exact solvability in superconforming Yang- Mills Theory .
She is married to Edward Witten and has three children. Her daughter Daniela Witten is Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington.
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- with R. Figari, Raphael Høegh-Krohn : Interacting relativistic boson fields in the De Sitter universe with two space-time dimensions, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 44, 1975, pp. 265-278.
- with G. Adkins, Edward Witten: Static Properties of Nucleons in the Skyrme Model, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 228, 1983, pp. 552-566.
- Static Properties of Baryons as Chiral Solitons, in: A. Chodos, E. Hadjimichael, C. Tze (Eds.), Solitons in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Proc. Workshop Lewes, Delaware, June 2-July 27, 1984, World Scientific 1984
- Superstrings at low energy, St. Barbara Proc. Unified String Theories, 1985, 667-677
- with Michael Dine , Vadim Kaplunovsky, Michaelangelo L. Mangano, Nathan Seiberg : Superstring model building, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 259, 1985, pp. 549-571
- with Vadim Kaplunovsky: Phenomenological Implications of Superstring Theory, Comm. Nucl. Particle Physics, Volume 16, 1986, 57
- with Ahmed Abouelsaood, Curtis Callan , SA Yost: Open Strings in Background Gauge Fields, Nuclear Physics B, Volume 280, 1986, pp. 599-624.
- Open And Closed String Equations Of Motion, in: Trieste 1987, Proceedings, Superstrings, unified theories and cosmology, pp. 43-66.
- with Michael D. McGuigan, Scott A. Yost: Charged Black Holes in Two-Dimensional String Theory, Nucl. Phys. B 375, 1992, pp. 421-452.
- with Louise Dolan : A Scaling Limit With Many Noncommutativity Parameters, Phys. Lett. B 504, 2001, pp. 329-337
- with Louise Dolan, E. Witten: A Relation between approaches to integrability in superconformal Yang-Mills theory, JHEP 0310: 017, 2003.
- Yangians in string theory and Yang-Mills theory, Advances in Physics, Volume 55, 2007, 604-609
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nappi, Chiara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nappi, Chiara R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-American theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |