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Howard J. Schnitzer schnitzer@brandeis.edu Edward
and Gertrude Swartz Professor of
Theoretical Physics |
Howard Schnitzer?s research deals with quantum field theory, conformal field theory, and the theory of strings. His group has studied tests of M-theory by comparison of its predictions with known results of N=2 Seiberg-Witten supersymmetric gauge theories, a. M-theory is the proposed theory that may be the underlying theory that subsumes string theory.
Recent Ph.D. Students:
Joao Pimental Ñunes (1996) “ Topics in 2D Yang-Mills Theory ”
Present Position: Assistant Professor, Departamento de Matematica,
Instituto Superior Tecnico, 1096 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
(complete list of publications)
Sample of Recent
Publications:
"Confinement / deconfinement transition of large N gauge theories with N(f) fundamentals: N(f)/N finite," hep-th/0402219, Nucl. Phys. B 695, 267 (2004).
"Matrix-model description of N = 2 gauge theories with non-hyperelliptic Seiberg-Witten curves," (with S. Naculich and N. Wyllard), hep-th/0305263, Nucl. Phys. B 674, 37 (2003).
"Gauged vector models and higher-spin representations in AdS(5)," hep-th/0310210, Nucl. Phys. B 695, 37 (2004).
"Matrix model approach to the N = 2 U(N) gauge theory with matter in the fundamental representation," (with S. Naculich and N. Wyllard), hep-th/0211254, JHEP 0301, 015 (2003).
"The N = 2 U(N) gauge theory prepotential and periods from a perturbative matrix model calculation," (with S. Naculich and N. Wyllard) hep-th/0211123, Nucl. Phys. B 651, 106 (2003).