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Edward Witten

Albert Einstein College of Medicine ORCID

614

Works

150,399

Citations

169

h-index

390

i10-index

Research Topics

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories

Affiliations

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2021–2021

University of Southern California2000–2002

California Institute of Technology1999–2002

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)1981–1981

Northeastern University1980–2004

Top Works

Anti de Sitter space and holography

199812,423 citations

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial

19894,664 citations

Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories

19983,701 citations

Dynamical breaking of supersymmetry

19813,641 citations

Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Nathan Seiberg,Edward Witten

19943,484 citations

Cosmic separation of phases

19843,312 citations

Global aspects of current algebra

19832,608 citations

Vacuum configurations for superstrings

Philip Candelas,Gary T. Horowitz,et al.

19852,600 citations

2 + 1 dimensional gravity as an exactly soluble system

19882,414 citations