Matthias Gaberdiel (born June 25, 1966, in

Offenburg Offenburg (; "open borough" - coat of arms showing open gates; Low Alemmanic: ''Offäburg'') is a city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in south-western Germany. With nearly 60,000 inhabitants (2019), it is the largest city and the administrat ...

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) is a

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experi ...

and full professor at

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

. He is known for his work on higher-spin theory and

conformal field theory A conformal field theory (CFT) is a quantum field theory that is invariant under conformal transformations. In two dimensions, there is an infinite-dimensional algebra of local conformal transformations, and conformal field theories can sometime ...

Research

Gaberdiel works on

string theory In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and intera ...

and conformal field theory. Recently, he has mainly worked on the duality between higher spin theories on AdS and dual conformal field theories (with Rajesh Gopakumar). His most cited publications are: *Gaberdiel MR, Gopakumar R. An AdS 3 dual for minimal model CFTs. ''Physical Review D.'' 2011 Mar 8;83(6):066007

According to

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, it has been cited 466 times.
Google Scholar Author page, Accessed August 17, 2020 *Gaberdiel, Matthias R., and Horst G. Kausch. "A rational

logarithmic conformal field theory In theoretical physics, a logarithmic conformal field theory is a conformal field theory A conformal field theory (CFT) is a quantum field theory that is invariant under conformal transformations. In two dimensions, there is an infinite-dimensi ...

." arXiv preprint hep-th/9606050 (1996)

According to

, it has been cited 268 times. *Bergman O, Gaberdiel MR. Stable non-BPS D-particles. Physics Letters B. 1998 Nov 26;441(1-4):133-40

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, it has been cited 189 times. *Gaberdiel MR. An algebraic approach to logarithmic conformal field theory.

International Journal of Modern Physics The ''International Journal of Modern Physics'' is a series of physics journals published by World Scientific. ''International Journal of Modern Physics A'' The ''International Journal of Modern Physics A'' was established in 1986, and covers ...

A. 2003 Oct 10;18(25):4593-638

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, it has been cited 232 times.

References

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