Scientists / Open questions
Gerardus 't Hooft
Quantum field theory; particle physics; quantum gravity
1999 Nobel Prize in Physics
5 questions
Consistent completion of the conformal-factor-first formulation of canonical quantum gravity: resolving the divergent induced Weyl-squared effective action
Explicit deterministic models with extensive energy, weak interactions, and interference in 't Hooft's deterministic quantum mechanics
Open problems in 't Hooft's antipodal-identification framework for black hole unitarity: the cutoff, the Euclidean instanton's field content, the Rindler limit, and second-quantized horizon variables
Completing the deterministic lattice reformulation of superstring theory: world-sheet continuum limit, emergent Lorentz invariance, state counting, and deterministic interactions
Can pure Yang-Mills theory hide its gauge invariance? Dynamical mass generation without elementary scalar fields (the open core of 't Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B35 (1971) 167)