It was a much worse 24-hour interval for theoretical physics because Joe Polchinski died of encephalon cancer inwards the morning.
Things were sure to a greater extent than occupation gratuitous when I took that movie (his primary movie on Wikipedia) on a beach inwards Santa Barbara. I believe that Joe was the captain of a string theory soccer squad on that 24-hour interval in addition to that squad defeated approximately condensed thing chaps or somebody similar that. Polchinski was also a vigorous wheel passenger inwards the mountains in addition to other things.
Well, Joe's friend in addition to ex-classmate who is an of import fellow member of the TRF community told me virtually the bad tidings real early. Now it's everywhere on Twitter (newest) etc. Here is the official letter past times the chancellor to the UCSB.
Polchinski was a form human being in addition to a top physicist. I won't endeavour to review his life hither because I don't experience enthusiastic for such things forthwith – depository fiscal establishment stand upwards for a text virtually Polchinski's memories published one-half a yr ago.
There are Polchinski expanded top 10 results of string theory to top twelve. He's been 1 of the best scientists who sometimes confronted the critics of string theory (see e.g. his string theory to the rescue).
Polchinski wrote 1 of the most famous string theory textbooks, did the most groundbreaking function to invent D-branes in addition to brand them useful. He has played amongst the dark hole data puzzle, wormholes, in addition to similar difficult things inwards quantum gravity a lot – in addition to coined Polchinski's paradox, firewall, in addition to Everett call back inwards this context. Some of them are believed past times most of his colleagues to endure incorrect but they all the same showed his passion in addition to creativity.
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Among the 187 papers amongst his call on Inspire, 15 are renowned (above 500 citations). It may endure interesting to enumerate them:
- Toroidal path integrals for Polyakov strings (1986)
- T-duality betwixt IIA in addition to IIB, amongst Dai in addition to Leigh (1989)
- Minimal realistic SUGRA, amongst Alvarez-Gaume in addition to Wise (1983)
- Some exact RG equations (1983)
- D-branes in addition to RR charges (1995, 2,500 citations now)
- Heterotic-type I S-duality, amongst Witten (1995)
- Consistency weather on Chan-Paton boundaries in addition to cross caps, amongst Gimon (1996, virtually symplectic D-brane guess groups etc.)
- Notes on D-branes, pedagogic, amongst Chaudhuri in addition to Johnson (1996) – BTW Chaudhuri after turned into a loon religiously in addition to sexually obsessed amongst Joe in addition to adding him on her papers against his will, in addition to Joe wrote me quite something virtually that abusive relationship
- TASI lectures on D-branes (1996)
- Polchinski-Strassler confining guess theory, an of import AdS/QCD newspaper (2000)
- Bousso-Polchinski discretuum of vacua amongst fluxes, an early on landscape (2000)
- Stringy Randall-Sundrum, amongst Kachru in addition to Giddings (2001)
- Hard (power law) scattering inwards string theory,
from the holographic warped dual theory, amongst Strassler (2001) - Integrability of AdS5 x S5, amongst Bena in addition to Roiban (2003)
- Black hole firewalls, amongst Almheiri, Marolf, in addition to Sully (2012)
R.I.P., Joe.