Kentaro Hori

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Kentarō Hori ( Japanese 堀 健 太 朗 , Hori Kentarō ) is a Japanese theoretical physicist who deals with string theory and the mathematics behind it. He is at the Kavli Institute in Tokyo.

Life

Before that he was at the University of California, Berkeley and Professor at the University of Toronto . He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1994 ( On Global Aspects Of Gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten Model ). As a post-doctoral student he was with Hirosi Ooguri at Caltech . In 2002 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (and guest in 2004 and 2008). In 2000 he published Cumrun Vafa, a new proof of the mirror symmetry of Calabi-Yau manifolds via the duality of two-dimensional quantized gauge theories. This connection of mirror symmetries with T-duality was first suggested by Andrew Strominger , Shing-Tung Yau and Eric Zaslow in 1996.

Hori and Vafa also investigated mirror symmetry in manifolds other than Calabi-Yau manifolds (Fano varieties).

He also deals in general with the compactification of superstrings and the question of which theories lead to minimal supersymmetry in four spacetime dimensions.

In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing ( Mirror Symmetry and Quantum Geometry ).

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  1. ^ Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
  2. ↑ Kentaro Hori: On Global Aspects Of Gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten Model . In: arXiv. High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) . February 4, 1994, arxiv : hep-th / 9402019 .
  3. ^ Ooguri, Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
  4. ↑ IAS, Members School of Natural Sciences ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sns.ias.edu
  5. ↑ Kentaro Hori, Cumrun Vafa: Mirror Symmetry . In: arXiv. High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) . February 25, 2000, arxiv : hep-th / 0002222 .
  6. ↑ Kentaro Hori: Mirror Symmetry And Quantum Geometry . In: arXiv. High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) . July 8, 2002, arxiv : hep-th / 0207068 .
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SURNAME Hori, Kentaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 堀 健 太 朗 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century