Indian physicist accidentally discovers new formula for pi while researching string theory This article, originally posted in Japanese on 17:00 Jun 19, 2024, may contains some machine-translated ...

Unlike perturbation theory, matrix models can be numerically simulated on computers, getting around some of the notorious difficulty of string-theory calculations. Although the matrices would have to ...

While investigating how string theory can be used to explain certain physical phenomena, they found a new series representation for the irrational number pi.

Roughly speaking, he says, a mathematical formula that describes how the guitar string vibrates is what a string-theory formula would look like. The theory had immediate appeal.

In a quantum theory of point particles, a fundamental quantity is the correlation function, which measures the probability for a particle to propagate from one point to another.

Now, physicists are still trying to understand the mechanics of string theory, which require very different initial conditions to function such as extra dimensions and flavours.

For specific applications of the L-function they describe, they found that their results correspond to another specific result from string theory.

String theory strutted onto the scene some 30 years ago as perfection itself, a promise of elegant simplicity that would solve knotty problems in fundamental physics—including the notoriously ...

Roughly speaking, he says, a mathematical formula that describes how the guitar string vibrates is what a string-theory formula would look like. The theory had immediate appeal.