Maximilian Kreuzer Memorial Volume

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World Scientific Publishing has approved the proposal for a memorial volume for Maximilian Kreuzer with the title

Strings, Gauge Fields, and the Geometry Behind - The Legacy of Maximilian Kreuzer

Editors:

Anton Rebhan (contact: rebhana @ tph.tuwien.ac.at)
Ludmil Katzarkov
Johanna Knapp
Radoslav Rashkov
Emanuel Scheidegger

Contents

Book description

Strings, Gauge Fields, and the Geometry Behind is a memorial volume for Maximilian Kreuzer, a theoretical physicist and superstring theorist who passed away November 26, 2010 and who is known best for two major achievements in string theory and in quantum gauge theories: the complete classification of reflexive polytopes in 4 dimensions, which encode Calabi-Yau manifolds that are of central importance to string theory compactifications, and the classification of anomalies in gauge theories and gravity.

This book will contain exclusively invited contributions from collaborators of Maximilian Kreuzer, giving accounts of his scientific legacy, and articles from renowned theoretical physicists and mathematicians, including Joseph Polchinski, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, Burt Ovrut, Peter West, Bert Schellekens, Alexei Morozov, Philip Candelas, Ralph Blumenhagen, Victor Batyrev, and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau. (See below for the full list of confirmed contributors.)

In order to make the legacy of Maximilian Kreuzer more fully accessible, his former collaborators Friedemann Brandt and Norbert Dragon will contribute unpublished lecture notes on the classification of anomalies, and Harald Skarke together with former colleagues and students of Maximilian Kreuzer will compile a comprehensive manual and tutorial for the software package PALP that was developed by Kreuzer and Skarke in connection with the classification of reflexive polytopes.

Table of contents

The book will contain original contributions organized in three parts:

  1. Gauge field theory and anomalies
  2. String theory and algebraic geometry
  3. The software package PALP

Instructions for Contributors

Invited authors should submit their contribution in LATeX, using the style file "9.00" x 6.00" from World Scientific (please refrain from introducing individual macros!) by e-mail to memorial @ hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at

  1. Download LATEX style file and templates (zip file)
  2. Readme (pdf)
  3. If you have problems compiling your LATEX file, because you are missing some .sty file, have a look at http://arxiv.org/macros/ if you can get it from there. If you are missing epsfsafe.tex, you can get it from here. At any rate, you can also simply contact us by e-mail for help.

Note that each contribution starts on an odd-numbered page. If your contribution is just a little bit longer than an even number of pages, please try to shorten to an even page number.

List of Confirmed Contributors

The following people have accepted our invitation to contribute to the memorial volume (links to arxiv postings where available):

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