Quantum fields, strings, and physical mathematics
arXiv:2104.03350 · doi:10.22323/1.390.0042
Abstract
I briefly review several important formal theory developments in quantum field theory and string theory that were reported at ICHEP conferences in past decades, and explain how they underlie a new research area referred to as physical or quantum mathematics. To illustrate these ideas in some specific context, I discuss certain aspects of topological string theory and a recently discovered knots-quivers correspondence.
10 pages, plenary talk at the 40th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020)