1992/06/17 by Edward Witten, Witten, Edward
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #International Science and Diplomacy #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9206069
15 pp
arxiv created 1992/06/17 · openalex publication_date 1992/06/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This lecture surveys a few loosely related topics, ranging from the scarcity of quantum field theories -- and the role that this has played, and still plays, in physics -- to paradoxes involving black holes in soluble two dimensional string theory and the question of whether naked singularities might be of even greater interest to string theorists than black holes.