Scientists / Open questions
François Englert
Particle physics; spontaneous symmetry breaking
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
9 questions
String-instanton Schwarzschild black holes with entropy smaller than A/4: backreaction, four-dimensional quantum fields, multi-instanton sectors, and microscopic state counting
The Englert-Spindel hidden-horizon conjecture: robustness of post-selection-induced breakdown of the semiclassical black hole horizon, coarse-grained emergence of the event horizon, and the counting of exclusive out-states
Dynamical realisation of very-extended Kac-Moody algebras in maximally oxidised theories: completing the brane-intersection construction
G+++-invariant formulation for the C_{q+1} maximally oxidised theories: exact intersecting brane solutions and the root-orthogonality correspondence
Minimal stabilizing bond sets for Caspar-Klug capsid spring networks: a systematic three-dimensional choice achieving exactly six zero modes
Foundations and development of the potential–correlation function duality in statistical mechanics
Dynamical origin of the truncation that generates the ten-dimensional fermionic strings from the 26-dimensional bosonic string
Dynamical origin of the hidden superstring sectors of the critical 26-dimensional bosonic string
Self-consistent explosion modeling and nucleosynthetic yields of zero-metallicity (Population III) core-collapse supernovae versus the abundance patterns of the most metal-poor stars