Andrew Strominger
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Andrew Strominger is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is currently a professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Society of Fellows. His contributions to physics include:
- a paper with Cumrun Vafa that explains the microscopic origin of the black hole entropy, originally calculated thermodynamically by Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein, from string theory
- a paper with Philip Candelas, Gary Horowitz, and Edward Witten in the 1980s about the relevance of Calabi-Yau manifolds for obtaining the Standard Model from string theory
- other articles discussing the dS/CFT correspondence (a variation of AdS/CFT correspondence); S-branes (a variation of D-branes)
- OM-theory (with Shiraz Minwalla and Nathan Seiberg)
- noncommutative solitons (with Shiraz Minwalla and Rajesh Gopakumar)
- massless black holes in the form of wrapped D3-branes that regulate the physics of a conifold and allow topology change
- interpretation of mirror symmetry as a special case of T-duality (with Eric Zaslow and Shing-Tung Yau)
- purely cubic action for string field theory
- superstrings with torsion
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