Alexander Markovich Polyakov

Alexander Markovich Polyakov (Russian: He was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences in
; born 27 September 1945) is a the- 1984[8] and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
oretical physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in (NAS) in 2005.[9][10]
Moscow and, since 1990, at Princeton University.[1]

3 See also
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Important discoveries

Polyakov action
't HooftPolyakov monopole

Polyakov is known for a number of basic contributions to quantum eld theory, including work on what
is now called the 't HooftPolyakov monopole in nonAbelian gauge theory, independent from Gerard 't Hooft.
Polyakov and coauthors discovered the so-called BPST
instanton which, in turn, led to the discovery of the
vacuum angle in QCD.[2][3] His path integral formulation of string theory[4] had profound and lasting impacts
on the conceptual and mathematical understanding of
the theory. His paper Innite conformal symmetry in
two-dimensional quantum eld theory,[5] with Alexander
Belavin, and Alexander Zamolodchikov, founded the
two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory; it has classic
status.[1] He also played an important role in elucidating the conceptual framework behind renormalization independent of Kenneth G. Wilson's Nobel Prizewinning
work. He formulated pioneering ideas in gauge/string duality long before the breakthrough of AdS/CFT using Dbranes. Other insightful conjectures that came years or
even decades before active work by others include integrability of gauge and string theories and certain ideas
about turbulence.

BelavinPolyakovSchwarzTyupkin instantons
QCD vacuum
MigdalPolyakov conformal bootstrap
Polyakovs Liouville theory
Polyakov strings
AdS/CFT correspondence

4 References
[1] Princeton celebrates Polyakovs 60th. CERN Courier
(Mar 1): 2. 2006.
[2] Belavin AA, Polyakov AM, Schwartz AS, Tyupkin
YS (1975). Pseudoparticle solutions of the YangMills equations.
Phys.
Lett.
B 59 (1): 85
7. Bibcode:1975PhLB...59...85B. doi:10.1016/03702693(75)90163-X.

Very early in his career, in a 1965 student work, Polyakov

suggested (with Alexander Migdal) a dynamical Higgs
mechanism, slightly after but independently[6] from the
publications of Peter Higgs and others. The paper was
delayed by the Editorial Oice of JETP, and was published only in 1966.[7]

[3] Polyakov AM (1977). Quark connement and topology of gauge theories. Nucl. Phys. B 120 (3): 429
58. Bibcode:1977NuPhB.120..429P. doi:10.1016/05503213(77)90086-4.
[4] Polyakov AM (1981).
Quantum geometry of
bosonic strings. Phys. Lett. B 103 (3): 20710.
Bibcode:1981PhLB..103..207P.
doi:10.1016/03702693(81)90743-7.

Honors and awards

[5] Belavin AA, Polyakov AM, Zamolodchikov AB (1984).

Innite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum eld theory. Nucl. Phys. B 241 (2): 333
80. Bibcode:1984NuPhB.241..333B. doi:10.1016/05503213(84)90052-X.

Alexander Polyakov was awarded the Dirac Medal of the

ICTP and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical
Physics in 1986, the Lorentz Medal in 1994, the Oskar
Klein Medal in 1996, the Harvey Prize in 2010 and the
Lars Onsager Prize (together with A. Belavin and A.
Zamolodchikov) in 2011. On 20 March 2013, Alexander Polyakov has been announced the recipient of 2013
Fundamental Physics Prize.

[6] A.M. Polyakov, A View From The Island, 1992

[7] A. A. Migdal and A. M. Polyakov, Spontaneous Breakdown of Strong Interaction Symmetry and Absence of
Massless Particles, Soviet Physics JETP, July 1966

[8] Alexander M. Polyakov. Site of RAS

[9] Polyakov, Alexandre. NAS Section: Physics
[10] Dirac Medalist Elected to NAS. ICTP News. 9/5/2005

External links
Dirac Medal 1986 citation
Departmental homepage at Princeton

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