Is String Theory in Knots?

1995/10/09 by Phil E. Gibbs, Gibbs, Phil E.
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9510042

Abstract

It is sometimes said that there may be a unique algebraic theory independent of space-time topologies which underlies superstring and p-brane theories. In this paper, I construct some algebras using knot relations within the framework of event-symmetric string theory, and ask the question "Is string theory in knots?"

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