Matthias Gaberdiel (born June 25, 1966, in
Offenburg
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,
Germany
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)
is a
theoretical physicist
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and full professor at
ETH Zurich
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. He is known for his work on
Higher-spin theory
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and
Conformal field theory
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.
Research
Gaberdiel works on
string theory 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
Google Scholar
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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." arXiv preprint hep-th/9606050 (1996)
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, 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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*Gaberdiel MR. An algebraic approach to logarithmic conformal field theory. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 2003 Oct 10;18(25):4593-638
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, it has been cited 232 times.
References
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Living people
20th-century Swiss physicists
String theorists
1966 births