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hep-th2001
The Maldacena Conjecture and Rehren Duality
Matthias Arnsdorf, Lee Smolin
We analyse the implications of the fact that there are two claims for a dual to \N=4 superconformal SU(N) Yang-Mills theory (SCYM), the Maldacena conjecture and the theorem of Rehr…
gr-qc2001
The present moment in quantum cosmology: challenges to the arguments for the elimination of time
Lee Smolin
Barbour, Hawking, Misner and others have argued that time cannot play an essential role in the formulation of a quantum theory of cosmology. Here we present three challenges to the…
hep-th2001
The exceptional Jordan algebra and the matrix string
Lee Smolin
A new matrix model is described, based on the exceptional Jordan algebra. The action is cubic, as in matrix Chern-Simons theory. We describe a compactification that, we argue, repr…