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#ddf"> Fundamental objects</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/String_(physics)" title="String (physics)">String</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_string" title="Cosmic string">Cosmic string</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brane" title="Brane">Brane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D-brane" title="D-brane">D-brane</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background: #ddf"> Perturbative theory</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosonic_string_theory" title="Bosonic string theory">Bosonic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superstring_theory" title="Superstring theory">Superstring</a> (<a href="/wiki/Type_I_string_theory" title="Type I string theory">Type I</a>, <a href="/wiki/Type_II_string_theory" title="Type II string theory">Type II</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heterotic_string_theory" title="Heterotic string theory">Heterotic</a>)</li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background: #ddf"> Non-perturbative results</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S-duality" title="S-duality">S-duality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T-duality" title="T-duality">T-duality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U-duality" title="U-duality">U-duality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M-theory" title="M-theory">M-theory</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">F-theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence" title="AdS/CFT correspondence">AdS/CFT correspondence</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background: #ddf"> Phenomenology</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/String_phenomenology" title="String phenomenology">Phenomenology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/String_cosmology" title="String cosmology">Cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/String_theory_landscape" title="String theory landscape">Landscape</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background: #ddf"> Mathematics</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding-bottom:0.75em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geometric_Langlands_correspondence" title="Geometric Langlands correspondence">Geometric Langlands correspondence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirror_symmetry_(string_theory)" title="Mirror symmetry (string theory)">Mirror symmetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine" title="Monstrous moonshine">Monstrous moonshine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vertex_algebra" class="mw-redirect" title="Vertex algebra">Vertex algebra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-theory_(physics)" title="K-theory (physics)">K-theory</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #ddf; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Related concepts</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theory_of_everything" title="Theory of everything">Theory of everything</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conformal_field_theory" title="Conformal field theory">Conformal field theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_gravity" title="Quantum gravity">Quantum gravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supersymmetry" title="Supersymmetry">Supersymmetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supergravity" title="Supergravity">Supergravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twistor_string_theory" title="Twistor string theory">Twistor string theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N_%3D_4_supersymmetric_Yang%E2%80%93Mills_theory" title="N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory"><i>N</i> = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory" title="Kaluza–Klein theory">Kaluza–Klein theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiverse" title="Multiverse">Multiverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holographic_principle" title="Holographic principle">Holographic principle</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div 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Douglas">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Duff_(physicist)" title="Michael Duff (physicist)">Duff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gia_Dvali" class="mw-redirect" title="Gia Dvali">Dvali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergio_Ferrara" title="Sergio Ferrara">Ferrara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willy_Fischler" title="Willy Fischler">Fischler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Friedan" title="Daniel Friedan">Friedan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_James_Gates" title="Sylvester James Gates">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinando_Gliozzi" title="Ferdinando Gliozzi">Gliozzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajesh_Gopakumar" title="Rajesh Gopakumar">Gopakumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Green_(physicist)" title="Michael Green (physicist)">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Greene" title="Brian Greene">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gross" title="David Gross">Gross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Gubser" title="Steven Gubser">Gubser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Gukov" title="Sergei Gukov">Gukov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Guth" title="Alan Guth">Guth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_J._Hanson" title="Andrew J. 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Nekrasov">Nekrasov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Neveu" title="André Neveu">Neveu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holger_Bech_Nielsen" title="Holger Bech Nielsen">Nielsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_van_Nieuwenhuizen" title="Peter van Nieuwenhuizen">van Nieuwenhuizen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Novikov_(mathematician)" title="Sergei Novikov (mathematician)">Novikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Olive" title="David Olive">Olive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hirosi_Ooguri" title="Hirosi Ooguri">Ooguri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burt_Ovrut" title="Burt Ovrut">Ovrut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Polchinski" title="Joseph Polchinski">Polchinski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Markovich_Polyakov" title="Alexander Markovich Polyakov">Polyakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Rajaraman" title="Arvind Rajaraman">Rajaraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Ramond" title="Pierre Ramond">Ramond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Randall" title="Lisa 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title="Matthias Staudacher">Staudacher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Steinhardt" title="Paul Steinhardt">Steinhardt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Strominger" title="Andrew Strominger">Strominger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raman_Sundrum" title="Raman Sundrum">Sundrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Susskind" title="Leonard Susskind">Susskind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft" title="Gerard 't Hooft">'t Hooft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Townsend" title="Paul Townsend">Townsend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandip_Trivedi" title="Sandip Trivedi">Trivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Turok" title="Neil Turok">Turok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumrun_Vafa" title="Cumrun Vafa">Vafa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriele_Veneziano" title="Gabriele Veneziano">Veneziano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erik_Verlinde" title="Erik Verlinde">Verlinde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_Verlinde" title="Herman Verlinde">Verlinde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Wess" title="Julius Wess">Wess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Witten" title="Edward Witten">Witten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shing-Tung_Yau" title="Shing-Tung Yau">Yau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamiaki_Yoneya" title="Tamiaki Yoneya">Yoneya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Zamolodchikov" title="Alexander Zamolodchikov">Zamolodchikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Zamolodchikov" title="Alexei Zamolodchikov">Zamolodchikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Zaslow" title="Eric Zaslow">Zaslow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruno_Zumino" title="Bruno Zumino">Zumino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Zwiebach" title="Barton Zwiebach">Zwiebach</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below hlist" style="display:block;margin-top:0.3em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_string_theory" title="History of string theory">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_string_theory" title="Glossary of string theory">Glossary</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar" style="padding-top:0.25em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 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href="/wiki/String_theory" title="String theory">string theory</a> developed by Iranian-American physicist <a href="/wiki/Cumrun_Vafa" title="Cumrun Vafa">Cumrun Vafa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new <a href="/wiki/Vacua" class="mw-redirect" title="Vacua">vacua</a> described by F-theory were discovered by Vafa and allowed string theorists to construct new realistic vacua — in the form of F-theory compactified on elliptically fibered <a href="/wiki/Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_manifold" title="Calabi–Yau manifold">Calabi–Yau four-folds</a>. The letter "F" supposedly stands for "Father" in relation to <a href="/wiki/M-theory" title="M-theory">"Mother"-theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compactifications">Compactifications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=F-theory&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Compactifications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Compactification_(physics)" title="Compactification (physics)">Compactification (physics)</a></div> <p>F-theory is formally a 12-dimensional theory, but the only way to obtain an acceptable background is to <a href="/wiki/Compactification_(physics)" title="Compactification (physics)">compactify</a> this theory on a <a href="/wiki/Torus" title="Torus">two-torus</a>. By doing so, one obtains <a href="/wiki/Type_IIB_string" class="mw-redirect" title="Type IIB string">type IIB</a> <a href="/wiki/Superstring_theory" title="Superstring theory">superstring theory</a> in 10 dimensions. The <a href="/wiki/SL(2,Z)" class="mw-redirect" title="SL(2,Z)">SL(2,Z)</a> <a href="/wiki/S-duality" title="S-duality">S-duality</a> symmetry of the resulting type IIB string theory is manifest because it arises as the group of <a href="/wiki/Large_diffeomorphism" title="Large diffeomorphism">large diffeomorphisms</a> of the two-dimensional <a href="/wiki/Torus" title="Torus">torus</a>. </p><p>More generally, one can compactify F-theory on an elliptically fibered <a href="/wiki/Manifold" title="Manifold">manifold</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elliptic_fibration" class="mw-redirect" title="Elliptic fibration">elliptic fibration</a>), i.e. a <a href="/wiki/Fiber_bundle" title="Fiber bundle">fiber bundle</a> whose fiber is a two-dimensional torus (also called an <a href="/wiki/Elliptic_curve" title="Elliptic curve">elliptic curve</a>). For example, a subclass of the <a href="/wiki/K3_manifold" class="mw-redirect" title="K3 manifold">K3 manifolds</a> is elliptically fibered, and F-theory on a K3 manifold is dual to <a href="/wiki/Heterotic_string" class="mw-redirect" title="Heterotic string">heterotic string</a> theory on a two-torus. Also, the moduli spaces of those theories should be isomorphic. </p><p>The large number of semirealistic solutions to string theory referred to as the <a href="/wiki/String_theory_landscape" title="String theory landscape">string theory landscape</a>, with <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle 10^{272,000}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msup> <mn>10</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>272</mn> <mo>,</mo> <mn>000</mn> </mrow> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle 10^{272,000}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/c7ea2462969aa025b37c43ee26b6a3e026316b53" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:7.946ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle 10^{272,000}}"></span> elements or so, is dominated by F-theory compactifications on <a href="/wiki/Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_four-fold" class="mw-redirect" title="Calabi–Yau four-fold">Calabi–Yau four-folds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are about <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle 10^{15}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msup> <mn>10</mn> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mn>15</mn> </mrow> </msup> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle 10^{15}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f50f542aca44501ae585479ee4e36e60b11646f7" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:4.201ex; height:2.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle 10^{15}}"></span> of those solutions consistent with the Standard Model of particle physics.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phenomenology">Phenomenology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=F-theory&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Phenomenology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>New models of <a href="/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory" title="Grand Unified Theory">Grand Unified Theory</a> have recently been developed using F-theory.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Extra_time_dimension">Extra time dimension</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=F-theory&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Extra time dimension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>F-theory has the <a href="/wiki/Metric_signature" title="Metric signature">metric signature</a> (10,2), which means that it includes a <a href="/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions" title="Multiple time dimensions">second time dimension</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="/wiki/K3_surface" title="K3 surface">K3 surface</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G2_manifold" title="G2 manifold">G<sub>2</sub> manifold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin(7)-manifold" title="Spin(7)-manifold">Spin(7)-manifold</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Generalized_complex_structure" title="Generalized complex structure">Generalized complex manifold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orbifold" title="Orbifold">Orbifold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conifold" title="Conifold">Conifold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orientifold" title="Orientifold">Orientifold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moduli_space" title="Moduli space">Moduli space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ho%C5%99ava%E2%80%93Witten_theory" title="Hořava–Witten theory">Hořava–Witten theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K-theory_(physics)" title="K-theory (physics)">K-theory (physics)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twisted_K-theory" title="Twisted K-theory">Twisted K-theory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Supersymmetry" title="Supersymmetry">Supersymmetry</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supergravity" title="Supergravity">Supergravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleven-dimensional_supergravity" title="Eleven-dimensional supergravity">Eleven-dimensional supergravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Type_I_supergravity" title="Type I supergravity">Type I supergravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Type_IIA_supergravity" title="Type IIA supergravity">Type IIA supergravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Type_IIB_supergravity" title="Type IIB supergravity">Type IIB supergravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superspace" title="Superspace">Superspace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lie_superalgebra" title="Lie superalgebra">Lie superalgebra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lie_supergroup" class="mw-redirect" title="Lie supergroup">Lie supergroup</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Holography" title="Holography">Holography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holographic_principle" title="Holographic principle">Holographic principle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence" title="AdS/CFT correspondence">AdS/CFT correspondence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/M-theory" title="M-theory">M-theory</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matrix_theory_(physics)" title="Matrix theory (physics)">Matrix theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Introduction_to_M-theory" title="Introduction to M-theory">Introduction to M-theory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%">String theorists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mina_Aganagi%C4%87" title="Mina Aganagić">Aganagić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed" title="Nima Arkani-Hamed">Arkani-Hamed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Atiyah" title="Michael Atiyah">Atiyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Banks_(physicist)" title="Tom Banks (physicist)">Banks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Berenstein" title="David Berenstein">Berenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raphael_Bousso" title="Raphael Bousso">Bousso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Curtright" title="Thomas Curtright">Curtright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robbert_Dijkgraaf" title="Robbert Dijkgraaf">Dijkgraaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Distler" title="Jacques Distler">Distler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_R._Douglas" title="Michael R. Douglas">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Duff_(physicist)" title="Michael Duff (physicist)">Duff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gia_Dvali" class="mw-redirect" title="Gia Dvali">Dvali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergio_Ferrara" title="Sergio Ferrara">Ferrara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willy_Fischler" title="Willy Fischler">Fischler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Friedan" title="Daniel Friedan">Friedan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_James_Gates" title="Sylvester James Gates">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinando_Gliozzi" title="Ferdinando Gliozzi">Gliozzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajesh_Gopakumar" title="Rajesh Gopakumar">Gopakumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Green_(physicist)" title="Michael Green (physicist)">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Greene" title="Brian Greene">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gross" title="David Gross">Gross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Gubser" title="Steven Gubser">Gubser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Gukov" title="Sergei Gukov">Gukov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Guth" title="Alan Guth">Guth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_J._Hanson" title="Andrew J. Hanson">Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_A._Harvey" title="Jeffrey A. Harvey">Harvey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft" title="Gerard 't Hooft">'t Hooft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petr_Ho%C5%99ava_(theorist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Petr Hořava (theorist)">Hořava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Gibbons" title="Gary Gibbons">Gibbons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamit_Kachru" title="Shamit Kachru">Kachru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Kaku" title="Michio Kaku">Kaku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renata_Kallosh" title="Renata Kallosh">Kallosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodor_Kaluza" title="Theodor Kaluza">Kaluza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_Kapustin" title="Anton Kapustin">Kapustin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Klebanov" title="Igor Klebanov">Klebanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadim_Knizhnik" title="Vadim Knizhnik">Knizhnik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxim_Kontsevich" title="Maxim Kontsevich">Kontsevich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oskar_Klein" title="Oskar Klein">Klein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Linde" title="Andrei 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