Corporate Cyberstalking: An Invitation to Build Theory

An Invitation to String Theory

These lectures are supposed to give a point of entry into that vast web of related ideas that go under the name “string theory”. I start with a more or less qualitative introduction to gravity as a field theory and sketch how one might try to quantize it. Quantizing gravity using the usual techniques of field theory will turn out to be unsuccessful, and that will be a motivation for trying an i...

Nicolaescu An Invitation to Morse Theory – Monograph

An invitation to Quantum Game Theory

Recent development in quantum computation and quantum information theory allows to extend the scope of game theory for the quantum world. The paper presents the history, basic ideas and recent development in quantum game theory. In this context, a new application of the Ising chain model is proposed.

An Invitation to Higher Gauge Theory

In this easy introduction to higher gauge theory, we describe parallel transport for particles and strings in terms of 2-connections on 2-bundles. Just as ordinary gauge theory involves a gauge group, this generalization involves a gauge ‘2-group’. We focus on 6 examples. First, every abelian Lie group gives a Lie 2-group; the case of U(1) yields the theory of U(1) gerbes, which play an importa...

An Invitation to Model Theory and C*-algebras

This survey is designed as an introduction to the study of C*-algebras from the perspective of model theory for metric structures. The intended readership consists of anyone interested in learning about this subject, and naturally includes both logicians and operator algebraists. Considering this, we will not assume in these notes any previous knowledge of model theory, nor any in-depth knowled...