- Igor Klebanov
Igor R. Klebanov is a
theoretical physicist whose research is centered on relations betweenstring theory and quantum gauge field theory. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. He received his undergraduate education atMIT , and his Ph.D. degree atPrinceton University as a student ofCurtis Callan in 1986. In his thesis he made advances in theSkyrme model ofhadron s. Klebanov worked as a post-doc atSLAC . Since 1989 he has been a Professor at Princeton University. His main contributions to string theory are inMatrix model approaches to two-dimensional strings, inbrane dynamics, and more recently in the gauge theory-gravity duality. His work in 1996-97 on relations between branes insupergravity and theirgauge theory description anticipated the gauge theory-gravity correspondence. His 1998 paper "Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory" with Gubser and Polyakov, which made a precise statement of the details of the duality, is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics. A series of papers by Klebanov and collaborators onD-branes on theconifold has led to discovery ofcascading gauge theory ; its string theoretic dual provides a geometric description ofcolor confinement andchiral symmetry breaking .External links
* [http://www.physics.princeton.edu/www/jh/research/klebanov_igor.html His research page]
* "Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory" [http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802109 hep-th/9802109]
* "Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and Chiral Symmetry Breaking-Resolution of Naked Singularities" [http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0007191 hep-th/0007191]
* [http://arxiv.org/find/grp_physics/1/au:+klebanov_i/0/1/0/all/0/1 List of his papers on Arxiv]
* [http://www.esi-topics.com/brane/interviews/DrIgorKlebanov.html An interview on his most famous work]
* [http://www.esi-topics.com/brane/authors/b1a.html List of most cited physicists in brane physics]Persondata
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