3 papers
hep-th2023
"The important thing is not to stop questioning", including the symmetries on which is based the Standard Model
Daniel Sternheimer
New fundamental physical theories can, so far a posteriori, be seen as emerging from existing ones via some kind of deformation. That is the basis for Flato's ``deformation philoso…
math-ph2023
The reasonable effectiveness of mathematical deformation theory in physics
Daniel Sternheimer
This is a brief reminder, with extensions, from a different angle and for a less specialized audience, of my presentation at WGMP32 in July 2013, to which I refer for more details…
physics.hist-ph2023
Remembering Ludwig Dmitrievich Faddeev, our lifelong partner in mathematical physics
Daniel Sternheimer
We briefly recount the long friendship that developed between Ludwig and us (Moshe Flato and I), since we first met at ICM 1966 in Moscow. That friendship extended to his school an…