Alireza Pahlavan
@astringbstring.bsky.social
PhD student and researcher working on string theory.
We submitted a new paper! This paper will be announced around 8:30 pm EST on Thursday. I have to thank my excellent collaborator, Alex Frankel, who recently moved to SCGP to start as a postdoc.
Barton Zwiebach is making waves with two absolutely stellar hot papers! arxiv.org/abs/2505.23924 and arxiv.org/abs/2506.00120
Gauge algebra and diffeomorphisms in string field theory
We consider the gauge algebra of closed string field theory with a focus on diffeomorphisms. This algebra contains off-shell information in two ways. The first way is geometric, through the choice of ...
arxiv.org
Instead of building my own string field theory calculation tools in Mathematica, I'm looking for established software or packages that others use. Does anything like that exist? @harolderbin.bsky.social Do you know about it?