Igor Klebanov

Igor Romanovich Klebanov (Russian: И́горь Романович Клеба́нов; 29 March 1962) is a theoretical physicist whose research is centered on relations between string theory and quantum gauge field theory. Since 1989, he has been a Professor at Princeton University where he is currently a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics.^[1] In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.^[2]

Born in the Soviet Union in 1962, he emigrated to the U.S. as a teenager. He received his undergraduate education at MIT (class of 1982), and his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University as a student of Curtis Callan in 1986. In his thesis he made advances in the Skyrme model of hadrons. Klebanov worked as a post-doc at SLAC. His main contributions to string theory are in Matrix model approaches to two-dimensional strings, in brane dynamics, and more recently in the gauge theory-gravity duality. His work in 1996-97 on relations between branes in supergravity and their gauge theory description anticipated the gauge theory-gravity correspondence.

Klebanov's 1998 paper Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory with his graduate student Gubser, and Polyakov, which made a precise statement of the AdS/CFT duality, is among the all-time top cited papers in high-energy physics (it has over 8700 citations according to Google Scholar). A series of papers by Klebanov and collaborators on D-branes on the conifold has led to discovery of cascading gauge theory. Its dual warped throat provides a geometric description of color confinement and chiral symmetry breaking; it has been used in model building for cosmology and particle physics. The relation between 3-dimensional critical O(N) model and bosonic higher-spin gauge theory in 4-dimensional AdS space has been called the Klebanov-Polyakov correspondence.

Honors

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[3]
• 2010 Princeton University Graduate Mentoring Award^[4]
• 2012 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• 2014 Tomassoni Prize^[5]
• 2016 Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.^[6]
• 2017 Pomeranchuk Prize^[7]

Works

• hep-th/9702076 "World Volume Approach to Absorption by Non-dilatonic Branes ", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Igor R. Klebanov, 10 Feb 1997
• hep-th/9802109 "Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov, 16 Feb 1998
• hep-th/0007191 "Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and Chiral Symmetry Breaking-Resolution of Naked Singularities" High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton), Matthew J. Strassler (IAS) 24 Jul 2000
• hep-th/0210114 "AdS Dual of the Critical O(N) Vector Model", High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov, 13 Nov 2002
• "Some stringy aspects of the AdS/CFT duality", Strings 2002, Igor Klebanov
• Solving Quantum Field Theories via Curved Spacetimes, Physics Today, Igor Klebanov and Juan Maldacena.

References

External links

• List of his papers on Arxiv
• List of his papers on Google Scholar
• An interview on his most famous work
• List of most cited physicists in brane physics
• Igor R Klebanov", Scientific commons
• Igor Klebanov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project