Arkady Aleksandrovich Tseytlin (Аркадий Александрович Цейтлин; born August 31, 1956, in Moscow) is a Soviet, Russian, and British theoretical physicist. He is one of the world's leading experts on superstring theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence.
In 1974, Tseytlin matriculated at Moscow State University, graduating in 1979. From 1981 to 1984, he studied at the Lebedev Physical Institute, where he earned a doctorate in physics under the supervision of E. S. Fradkin. In 1984, Tseytlin joined the academic staff of the Lebedev Physical Institute. Since 1992, he has been a professor at Imperial College London.
Tseytlin has made fundamental contributions to the development of modern string theory. In particular, he, along with E. S. Fradkin, developed the sigma-model approach to string dynamics in curved spacetime and established the central role of the Born-Infeld action in open string theory. He also constructed, jointly with Ruslan Romanovich Metsaev, a superstring action in anti-de Sitter space, which plays a central role in the duality between gauge fields and strings and underlies the exact solution of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory based on integrability.
During the 1980s, Yuri Golfand expressed keen interest in the research of Tseytlin and Fradkin. To celebrate Andrei Sakharov's 65th birthday, Tseytlin, along with his colleague Vladimir Yakovlevich Fainberg (1926–2010), visited Sakharov in his exile in Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) in May 1986.
In 2011, Tseytlin was awarded the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize of the UK-based Institute of Physics. In 2023 he was awarded the Pomeranchuk Prize of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) from Moscow.
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References
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