Maximilian Kreuzer

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Maximilian Kreuzer (born May 19, 1960 in Regau ; † November 26, 2010 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physicist .

Life

Maximilian Kreuzer completed a double degree in technical physics and technical mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna from 1978 to 1983 , which he completed with honors in 1982 and 1983, respectively. He did his doctorate in 1986 under Wolfgang Kummer on unified theories of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions . In the following years he was a postdoc at the University of Hanover (LUH) and received an Erwin Schrödinger scholarship at the University of California, Santa Barbara , before becoming a university assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna in 1990, where he subsequently worked completed a two-year research stay at CERN in 1993. In 1997, Kreuzer was made an associate professor. Until his early death from cancer, he headed the string theory working group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna. His grave is at the Ottakringer Friedhof .

Act

The most important scientific achievements of Kreuzer are the complete classification of anomalies in quantum field theories (1989, together with Friedemann Brandt and Norbert Dragon from the LUH) and the classification of all 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional reflexive polyhedra together with Harald Skarke in the years 1998 resp 2000. Higher-dimensional reflexive polyhedra are of great importance for string theory because they encode Calabi-Yau manifolds , and in string theory these determine the geometry of the dimensions that go beyond ordinary space-time . The computer-aided classification of Kreuzer and Skarke extended the number of known 6-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds to the astronomical number of 473,800,776.

Publications

Scientific publications (sorted by number of citations)

literature

  • Anton Rebhan, Ludmil Katzarkov, Johanna Knapp, Radoslav Rashkov, Emanuel Scheidegger (Eds.): Strings, Gauge Fields, and the Geometry Behind. The Legacy of Maximilian Kreuzer. World Scientific 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brandt, Dragon, Kreuzer All consistent Yang-Mills-Anomalies , Physics Letters B, Volume 231, 1989, pp. 263–270, the same Completeness and Non-Triviality of the solutions of the consistency conditions , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 332, 1990, pp. 224-249, the same The gravitational anomalies , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 340, 1990, pp. 187-224
  2. ^ Kreuzer, Skarke On the classification of reflexive polyhedra , Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 185, 1997, pp. 495-508, the same Classification of reflexive polyhedra in three dimensions , Advances Theor. Math. Phys., Volume 2, 1998, pp. 847-864, the same Complete classification of reflexive polyhedra in four dimensions , Advances Theor. Math. Phys., Vol. 4, 2002, pp. 1209-1230
personal data
SURNAME Cruiser, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Regau
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2010
Place of death Vienna