Wadim Genrichowitsch Knischnik

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Wadim Genrichowitsch Knischnik ( Russian Вадим Генрихович Книжник , English transliteration Vadim Genrikhovich Knizhnik; born February 20, 1962 in Kiev , †  December 25, 1987 in Moscow ) was a Russian theoretical physicist.

Knischnik won the Physics Olympiad of the USSR twice as a student, studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from 1978 to 1984 and received his doctorate (Russian doctorate) at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics under Alexander Polyakov (Polyakov ). In 1986 he joined the Landau Institute, but was also at ITEP . He placed his first publication as a student together with his professor Alexander Fjodorowitsch Andrejew . At the Landau Institute he mainly dealt with quantum field theory and especially string theory and quantum gravity. His career as a promising mathematical physicist in the field of string theory was broken off by his untimely death at the age of only 25.

Knischnik examined loop diagrams of the perturbation series in string theory, using methods of modern algebraic geometry. The KZ equations are named after him and Alexander Zamolodchikov , complex partial differential equations of the first order to which the correlation functions from conforming field theories to affine Lie algebras obey.

literature

  • Lars Brink, Daniel Friedan and Polyakov (editors): Physics and Mathematics of Strings . World Scientific, 1990 (Knizhnik Memorial Volume)

References

  1. ↑ Knizhnik, Polyakov and Zamolodchikov : Fractal structure of 2 dimensional quantum gravity . In: Modern Physics Letters A . Volume 3, 1988, p. 819
  2. ↑ Alexander Belavin and Knizhnik: Complex geometry and the theory of quantum strings . In: Soviet Physics JETP . Volume 64, 1986, pp. 214-228; Belavin and Knizhnik: Algebraic geometry and the geometry of Quantum strings . In: Physics Letters B . 168, 1986, p. 201; Knizhnik: Multiloop Amplitudes in the Theory of Quantum Strings and Complex Geometry . In: Soviet Physics Uspekhi . Volume 32, 1989, p. 945
  3. ↑ Current Algebra and Wess-Zumino Model in Two-Dimensions . In: Nuclear Physics B . Volume 247, 1984, pp. 83-103
personal data
SURNAME Knischnik, Vadim Genrichowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Книжник, Вадим Генрихович (Russian); Knizhnik, Vadim Genrikhovich (English transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1987
Place of death Moscow