Fetching the paper…
Reading the bibliography…
In this article, prepared for the book "The birth of string theory", I recall the sequence of ideas which led to non-critical strings and gauge/strings duality.
A. M. Polyakov, “Similarity hypothesis in strong interactions. 2. cascade formation of hadrons and their energy distribution in e+ e- annihilation,” Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 60
1972
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. M. Polyakov, ‘Compact gauge fields and the infrared catastrophe,” Phys. Lett. B 59
1975
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. A. Belavin, A. M. Polyakov, A. S. Shvarts and Yu. S. Tyupkin, ‘Pseudoparticle solutions of the Yang-Mills equations,” Phys. Lett. B 59
1975
Earlier work this paper cites.
L. Brink, P. Di Vecchia and P. S. Howe, “A Locally Supersymmetric And Reparametrization Invariant Action For The Spinning String,” Phys. Lett. B 65
1976
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. M. Polyakov, “Thermal Properties Of Gauge Fields And Quark Liberation,” Phys. Lett. B 72
1978
Earlier work this paper cites.
1978
Cited alongside, same era.
Yu. M. Makeenko and A. A. Migdal, “Exact Equation For The Loop Average In Multicolor QCD,” Phys. Lett. B 88
1980
Cited alongside, same era.
A. M. Polyakov, “String Representations And Hidden Symmetries For Gauge Fields,” Phys. Lett. B 82
1980
Cited alongside, same era.
A. M. Polyakov, “Gauge Transformations And Diffeomorphisms,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 5
1990
Cited alongside, same era.
N. Seiberg and E. Witten, “Monopole Condensation, And Confinement In N=2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory,” Nucl. Phys. B 426
1994
Cited alongside, same era.
I. R. Klebanov, “World-volume approach to absorption by non-dilatonic branes,” Nucl. Phys. B 496
1997
Later among the works it cites.
A. M. Polyakov, “String theory and quark confinement,” Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 68
1999
Later among the works it cites.
J. M. Maldacena, “The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity,” Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2
1999
Later among the works it cites.
N. A. Nekrasov, “Solution of N=2 theories via instanton counting,” Annales Henri Poincare 4
2003
Later among the works it cites.
K. G. Wilson, ‘The origins of lattice gauge theory,” Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 140
2005
Later among the works it cites.
alphaXiv searches the wider corpus for related work and actual follow-ups.
alphaXiv is searching for related work…