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WHAT IS … F-theory?
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In the spirit of the “WHAT IS …” series of articles in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, I will give a description of F-theory from first priniciples. On the one hand, F-theory is a theory of quantum gravity which arose from string theory but which is not exactly part of string theory. (I will explain these things to non-physicists.) On the other hand, F-theory provides a fascinating application of the Weierstrass p-function and the theory of elliptic curves, including the height pairing and the Mordell-Weil and Tate-Shafarevich groups. (I will explain these things to non-mathematicians.)
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