Joseph Polchinski

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Joseph Polchinski's Degrees

PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Physics California Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr. was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Biography Polchinski was born in White Plains, New York, the elder of two children to Joseph Gerard Polchinski Sr. , a financial consultant and manager, and Joan , an office worker and homemaker. Polchinski was primarily of Irish descent with his paternal grandfather being Polish.

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Joseph Polchinski's Published Works

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String theory. (1994) (3225)
Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges. (1995) (2558)
Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications (2001) (2109)
Black holes: complementarity or firewalls? (2012) (1502)
Quantization of four-form fluxes and dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant (2000) (1229)
Renormalization and effective lagrangians (1984) (1157)
String theory. Vol. 1: An introduction to the bosonic string (1998) (1074)
Hidden Symmetries of the AdS_5 x S^5 Superstring (2003) (896)
An introduction to the bosonic string (1998) (851)
New Connections Between String Theories (1989) (802)
Tasi lectures on D-branes (1996) (797)
String theory. Vol. 2: Superstring theory and beyond (1998) (787)
Holography from Conformal Field Theory (2009) (785)
Evidence for heterotic - type I string duality (1995) (675)
The String dual of a confining four-dimensional gauge theory (2000) (668)
The spectrum in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (2016) (630)
Black holes and random matrices (2016) (626)
Consistency conditions for orientifolds and D-manifolds. (1996) (622)
Hard scattering and gauge/string duality. (2001) (614)
Models of AdS2 backreaction and holography (2014) (611)
Correspondence principle for black holes and strings (1996) (549)
Minimal Low-Energy Supergravity (1983) (526)
Evaluation of the one loop string path integral (1986) (500)
An apologia for firewalls (2013) (491)
Towards strange metallic holography (2009) (489)
Cosmic F- and D-strings (2003) (429)
Holographic and Wilsonian renormalization groups (2010) (416)
The Pomeron and gauge/string duality (2006) (408)
Consistency of open superstring theories (1988) (406)
UV / IR relations in AdS dynamics (1998) (403)
Deep Inelastic Scattering and Gauge/String Duality (2002) (401)
New vacua for type II string theory (1995) (394)
Effective field theory and the Fermi surface (1992) (365)
Notes on D-branes (1996) (359)
Don't Panic! Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes (2001) (337)
Gauge/Gravity Duality (2006) (312)
Gauge-gravity duals with a holomorphic dilaton (2001) (293)
Gauge theory and the excision of repulson singularities (1999) (289)
Supersymmetric three-form flux perturbations on AdS 5 (2000) (272)
N = 3 warped compactifications (2002) (258)
Superstring theory and beyond (1998) (257)
Combinatorics of boundaries in string theory. (1994) (255)
Anomalies, dualities, and topology of D = 6 N = 1 superstring vacua (1996) (252)
Partially broken global supersymmetry and the superstring (1986) (249)
Gauge-gravity duality and the black hole interior. (2013) (248)
The Cosmological Constant and the String Landscape (2006) (247)
The a-theorem and the asymptotics of 4D quantum field theory (2012) (243)
Effective string theory. (1991) (239)
Scale and Conformal Invariance in Quantum Field Theory (1988) (220)
Collisions of cosmic F- and D-strings (2004) (217)
Weinberg's nonlinear quantum mechanics and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. (1991) (211)
Semi-holographic Fermi liquids (2010) (211)
Black hole complementarity versus locality. (1995) (208)
Introduction to Cosmic F- and D-Strings (2004) (206)
The electric dipole moment of the neutron in low energy supergravity (1983) (205)
Gauge dual and noncommutative extension of an N=2 supergravity solution (2000) (204)
Instability of spacelike and null orbifold singularities (2002) (203)
Bulk and transhorizon measurements in AdS/CFT (2012) (196)
S-Matrices from AdS Spacetime (1999) (193)
Randomness at the edge: Theory of quantum Hall transport at filling nu =2/3. (1994) (164)
Monopoles, Duality, and String Theory (2003) (161)
An off-shell propagator for string theory (1986) (160)
Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality (2010) (159)
Tensors from K3 orientifolds (1996) (154)
Breaking of Supersymmetry at Intermediate-Energy (1982) (150)
The Black Hole Information Problem (2016) (148)
Free fermion representation of a boundary conformal field theory. (1994) (147)
Higher order graviton scattering in M(atrix) theory (1997) (147)
Low-energy dynamics of the spinon-gauge system (1993) (142)
A two-dimensional model for quantum gravity (1989) (142)
String Theory: Preface (1998) (137)
Quantization of false-vacuum bubbles: A Hamiltonian treatment of gravitational tunneling. (1990) (136)
Remarks on brane and antibrane dynamics (2014) (132)
Vanishing Renormalization of the D Term in Supersymmetric U(1) Theories (1981) (127)
Classical limit of (1+1)-dimensional string theory (1991) (125)
Self Gravitating Fundamental Strings (1997) (125)
N = 2 Gauge/Gravity Duals (2000) (125)
Euclidean wormholes in string theory (2007) (120)
Negative energy, superluminosity, and holography (1999) (119)
String duality: A Colloquium (1996) (118)
The string S-matrix (1998) (112)
Moduli Space of CHL Strings (1995) (111)
Compactification in the lightlike limit (1997) (108)
Probing five-dimensional black holes with D-branes (1997) (105)
Factorization of Bosonic String Amplitudes (1988) (105)
Chaos in the black hole S-matrix (2015) (102)
Critical behavior of random surfaces in one dimension (1990) (101)
Moduli space of Chaudhuri-Hockney-Lykken strings. (1995) (99)
Strings and supermoduli (1986) (94)
M theory and the light cone (1999) (92)
Quantum nucleation of false-vacuum bubbles. (1990) (91)
Towards a Holographic Marginal Fermi Liquid (2011) (85)
Possible resolution of the black hole information puzzle. (1994) (85)
Bethe ansatz for a quantum supercoset sigma model (2005) (84)
Membrane scattering with M-momentum transfer (1997) (84)
Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Quantum Error Corrections. (2015) (83)
A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization (2008) (77)
Dualities of Fields and Strings (2014) (77)
Analytic study of small scale structure on cosmic strings (2006) (77)
Cosmic Superstrings Revisited (2004) (75)
The phase of the sum over spheres (1989) (72)
Cosmic string structure at the gravitational radiation scale (2007) (72)
Collision of macroscopic fundamental strings (1988) (72)
Four-dimensional black holes in string theory. (1993) (70)
Open heterotic strings (2005) (68)
Strings and QCD (1992) (68)
Cosmic String Loops, Large and Small (2007) (66)
Brane/antibrane dynamics and KKLT stability (2015) (66)
The decay of macroscopic fundamental strings (1989) (62)
String Theory and Black Hole Complementarity (1995) (62)
Gravitational scattering in the c = 1 matrix model (1994) (61)
The string theory landscape. (2004) (61)
Virasoro-Shapiro from Wilson (1989) (60)
Quantum mechanics of the googolplexus (1989) (59)
String Theory and the Size of Hadrons (2001) (59)
Magnetic AdS x R^2: Supersymmetry and stability (2011) (59)
String Theory: D-branes (1998) (59)
Wilson loop renormalization group flows (2011) (59)
Matrix models for the black hole information paradox (2008) (58)
Heterotic strings with tree level cosmological constant (1989) (56)
Four-point function in the IOP matrix model (2016) (54)
Violations of the Born rule in cool state-dependent horizons (2015) (54)
Semi-Off-Shell String Amplitudes (1987) (54)
Translation-invariant backgrounds in 1 + 1 dimensional string theory (1992) (53)
Nonperturbative Instability of AdS_5 x S^5/Z_k (2007) (52)
Dual Purpose Landscaping Tools: Small Extra Dimensions in AdS/CFT (2009) (52)
Vertex operators in the polyakov path integral (1987) (49)
Large-density field theory, viscosity and ‘2kF’ singularities from string duals (2012) (48)
Baryon number violation at high temperature in the standard model (1990) (47)
Comment on ‘Small Lorentz violations in quantum gravity: do they lead to unacceptably large effects?’ (2011) (46)
Decoupling versus excluded volume or return of the giant wormholes (1989) (46)
High-temperature limit of the confining phase. (1991) (45)
Renormalization of the Mobius Volume (1988) (45)
Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics from Light Cone Quantization (1999) (37)
Recent directions in particle theory : from superstrings and black holes to the standard model : proceedings of the 1992 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-26 June 1992 (1993) (36)
Remarks on the Liouville Field Theory (1991) (36)
The quantum Hall effect on R4 (2003) (34)
High-temperature partition function of the rigid string. (1992) (33)
Cosmic String Loops and Gravitational Radiation (2007) (30)
Implications of supersymmetric origins for monojets (1985) (30)
Ward identities in two-dimensional gravity (1991) (29)
The Quantum Hall Effect on R^4 (2002) (29)
Monopole catalysis: The fermion-rotor system☆ (1984) (27)
QUANTUM GRAVITY AT THE PLANCK LENGTH (1998) (26)
Duality survives time dependence (1991) (25)
Higher Spin Holography, RG, and the Light Cone (2014) (25)
Finite density states in integrable conformal field theories (2004) (25)
Nonperturbative Consistency of d=2 String Theory. (1994) (25)
Proceedings, Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI 92): From Black Holes and Strings to Particles (1993) (23)
Journey to the center of the fuzzball (2014) (22)
Erratum to: Black holes and random matrices (2018) (21)
W and Z decays in low energy supersymmetry (1983) (19)
AdS Holography in the Penrose Limit (2003) (18)
All Strung Out (2007) (17)
Cosmic superstrings II (2004) (17)
Recent Results in String Duality (1995) (17)
Bound state effects in ???(8.3)+? (1984) (17)
String Theory to the Rescue (2015) (16)
Light scalars in N=1 locally supersymmetric theories (1983) (15)
The field theory of intersecting D3-branes (2014) (15)
New Frontiers in Fields and Strings (TASI 2015) - Proceedings of the 2015 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (2017) (14)
Hairy black holes in string theory. (1993) (14)
Why trust a theory? Some further remarks (part 1) (2016) (13)
Models of AdS2 backreaction and holography (2015) (12)
Summing over world-sheet boundaries (1994) (12)
One-loop amplitudes (1998) (11)
Memories of a Theoretical Physicist (2017) (9)
M Theory: Uncertainty and Unification (2002) (8)
Quantum Gravity and String Theory (2013) (7)
Introduction to Cosmic Fand D-Strings (2008) (7)
The quantized O(1,2)/O(2) x Z2 sigma model has no continuum limit in four dimensions. I. Theoretical framework. (1992) (7)
The spectrum in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (2016) (6)
Effective Potentials for Supersymmetric Three Scale Hierarchies (1983) (6)
Critical behavior of the Marinari-Parisi model (1994) (6)
Green functions of vortex operators (1981) (6)
Small-scale behaviour of cosmic string networks (2008) (5)
Gauge-fermion masses in supersymmetric hierarchy models (1982) (4)
Bouncing Universes in String Theory (2005) (4)
Classical Limit of (1 + 1)-DIMENSIONAL String Theory (1993) (4)
Recent Progress in Formal Theory (2008) (4)
Puzzles and paradoxes about holography (1999) (4)
The quantized O(1,2)/O(2) x Z2 sigma model has no continuum limit in four dimensions. II. Lattice simulation. (1992) (4)
TASI 2015: New Frontiers in Fields and Strings: Proceedings of the 2015 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-26 June 2015 (2017) (3)
Tensors from K 3 Orientifolds (1997) (3)
Gauge/Gravity Duality (Gauge Gravity Duality) (2010) (2)
FROM POLYAKOV TO MODULI (1987) (2)
Burning rings of fire. (2015) (2)
Order parameters in a modified lattice gauge theory (1982) (2)
String Theory: Type I and type II superstrings (1998) (1)
Probing five-dimensional black holes with D (1998) (1)
String Theory: Spinors and SUSY in various dimensions (1998) (1)
On the generality of the mass sum rule (1983) (1)
Simple and BPS Wilson Loops (2011) (1)
Vortex Operators in Gauge Field Theories. (1980) (1)
String Theory: Physics in four dimensions (1998) (1)
String Theory: Tree-level amplitudes (1998) (1)
Low Energy Supergravity: The Minimal Model (1983) (1)
Four-point function in the IOP matrix model (2016) (1)
Strings at strong coupling (1998) (1)
String Theory: References (1998) (0)
Superstring Theory (1989) (0)
Ju l 2 00 8 A Matrix Model for Black Hole Thermalization (2009) (0)
An apologia for firewalls (2013) (0)
String Theory: Glossary (1998) (0)
Black holes: complementarity or firewalls? (2013) (0)
I. IIA COMPACTIFICATION WITH RAMOND-RAMOND BACKGROUNDS (2022) (0)
What is String Theory and What Does It Have To Do With Black Holes (1999) (0)
String Theory: Orbifolds (1998) (0)
Erratum to: Black holes and random matrices (2018) (0)
General Discussion and Conclusions (2013) (0)
String Theory: Conformal field theory (1998) (0)
Black holes and random matrices (2017) (0)
String Theory: Advanced CFT (1998) (0)
String Theory: Superstring interactions (1998) (0)
Remarks on brane and antibrane dynamics (2015) (0)
Introduction to Gauge / Gravity Duality Lectures at TASI , June 1-7 , 2010 (2010) (0)
String Theory: Notation (1998) (0)
String Theory: Toroidal compactification and T -duality (1998) (0)
1 99 8 NSF-ITP-98-086 hep-th / 9809022 UV / IR Relations in AdS Dynamics (1998) (0)
A pr 2 00 6 1 Gauge / gravity duality (2006) (0)
Violations of the Born rule in cool state-dependent horizons (2016) (0)
TASI 2015 Participants (2017) (0)
Strings, Branes, and New Physics (2002) (0)
ecent R esults in String D uality (0)
The striuic theory landscape (2004) (0)
Journey to the center of the fuzzball (2015) (0)
String Theory: Calabi–Yau compactification (1998) (0)
The field theory of intersecting D3-branes (2015) (0)
Grad school with Stanley Mandelstam (2017) (0)
String Theory: A first look at strings (1998) (0)
SUPERSYMMETRY AND SUPERGRAVITY (1984) (0)
String Theory: Higher order amplitudes (1998) (0)
O ct 2 00 5 Open Heterotic Strings (2005) (0)
Bulk and transhorizon measurements in AdS/CFT (2012) (0)
R ecent R esults in String D uality (2013) (0)
String Theory: The Polyakov path integral (1998) (0)
0 60 20 37 v 1 1 0 Fe b 20 06 1 Gauge / gravity duality (2006) (0)
2 String Theory : A Review 2 . 1 Strings as a Unified Theory (2022) (0)
Daniel Heineman Prize: The Quest for Quantum Gravity (2007) (0)
RENORMALIZATION A N D EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIANS (2002) (0)
Engineers key to laboratory's continuing success (2010) (0)
Combinatorics of boundaries in string theory 15 NOVEMBER 1994 (2011) (0)
The a-theorem and the asymptotics of 4D quantum field theory (2013) (0)
String Theory: Advanced topics (1998) (0)
String Theory: The heterotic string (1998) (0)
NSF-KITP-12-027 , SLAC-PUB-14883 , SU-ITP-12 / 08 Large-density field theory , viscosity , and “ 2 k F ” singularities from string duals (2012) (0)
String Theory: Appendix A: A short course on path integrals (1998) (0)
rf losses and peak fields in helical resonators (1974) (0)
The string spectrum (1998) (0)
O ct 2 00 9 NSF-KITP-09-110 Holography from Conformal Field Theory (2021) (0)
Black Holes and Firewalls (2015) (0)

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