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A conversation between Andy Strominger and Stephen Wolfram (June 26 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a Consistent Constraint in Strings?

Anomaly is any classical property that isn't preserved when the theory is quanized. So if you want to have a laurencin variance and not have a tacion a, you need to also dress up the string by putting extra fermionic degrees of freedom on there. And in fact, this is how super symmetry was discovered.

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