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The following mathematical artices are needed, in no particular order:

  1. Anything on Scholarpedia.
  2. S matrix theory--- This subject requires detailed presentation, although much of it is of historical interest only.
  3. Condensed matter RG--- the RG pages need expansion from Domb and Green. Wilson Fisher point, O(N) models and the like.
  4. Nonstandard string vacua--- there aren't only 5 string theories: Hellerman discovered a 6th 10d theory with SUSY, and there were O(16)xO(16) heterotic strings with no SUSY, and a bunch of other constructions.
  5. Representation theory for physics: SU(N),SO(N),Sp(N),exceptional each need an article, and all the popular reps and breakdown, plus Clebsch-Gordon need summarizing in articles. I prefer Weyl method here.
  6. Kac Moody Lie Algebras--- The physics version.
  7. Conformal field theory--- Belavin Polyakov Zamoldchikov and the rest--- huge field is barely covered.
  8. Supersymmetry--- the mess here is the notation (you need a unified multidimensional spinor notation and I can do that, following Scherk from the 70s, avoid 2 component stuff for general formulations--- that's 4d specific).
  9. Knot theory/Chern Simons theory (this cross talks with math)
  10. Scattering theory (relativistic scattering, shadow scattering--- I alway liked Peierls "surprises in theoretical physics")
  11. Grassman integrals for lattice models--- dimer models/Ising determinants/etc.
  12. Axiomatic field theory
  13. PT invariant theory: Frohlich Bender etc. Recent work which needs an article.
  14. Unparticles: Georgi Banks/Zaks etc. Recent work which needs an article
  15. AdS/CFT: get a good technical review.
  16. AdS/CMT (Schrodinger groups) new application.
  17. Fermi liquid theory described as oscillations of the Fermi sphere (this is an obscure description from the 60s, but it should be more widely known, I can't remember the cite offhand)
  18. Petrov Classification
  19. Exact solutions of GR: find them all and put them in.
  20. Landauer style computational thermodynamics, reversible computation.
  21. Potts model and other 2d solvable models
  22. Wolfenstein mechanism (neutrino oscillations and solar model)
  23. Anomaly land, triangle, hexagon, Fujikawa, Green-Schwarz
  24. OPE--- this needs to not be a stub. Wilson and Zimmerman, but also 2d stuff.
  25. Chiral perturbation theory: Skyrmions and nonlinear vs linear sigma models. Need to sort out whether there is a sigma (I don't know if this is known).
  26. classical chaos: bifurcation theory, periodic orbits
  27. Quantum chaos: cat map, Heller scarring, Gutzwiller trace formula
  28. Unified thermodynamics statistical mechanics treatment
  29. Ergodicity theory in physics: billiards on a negatively curved space
  30. Weak localization--- applications to metal rings, perturbative calculations
  31. Universal conduction fluctuations
  32. Singularity theorems
  33. Membrane paradigm
  34. D-brane junctions
  35. Supersymmetry current --- the multiplet is confused
  36. Current algebra--- there are a ton of models here, focus on 80s-now, not 60s.
  37. BFKL pomeron--- Polchinski and Strassler along with Lipatov sorted this out recently, but this needs a historical treatment, it's big.
  38. AdS/QCD--- there are top down and bottom up models, both interesting.
  39. Matrix models and 2d strings--- this was semi-obscure literature in the 80s popularized by Polchinski.
  40. Anderson localization--- 2d used to be controversial, but it looks like the controversy is over, no localization in infinite 2d system.
  41. Rigorous fermi pressure theorems, stability of bulk matter (dyson etc, famous work from the 60s, obscure today)
  42. QED precision calculations--- high order diagrams, muon magnetic moment, proton radius corrections, etc. Kinoshita does this, and he's dead soon.
  43. Bethe Salpeter equation --- this is on Scholarpedia, but they have no technical presentation, so I present it separately.
  44. Atomic Hartree Fock theory--- this is still the best standard for atomic spectra, we need an article on the metod, the calculations for a few atoms, some variabtional stuff for He, and best results
  45. Nuclear drop model--- this was more than the binding energy curve, it was also fission. Someone should read Bohr on this.
  46. Nuclear shell model--- magic numbers/Skyrme alpha particle model
  47. Nuclear effective potentials--- the relation to hadronic resonances, predictions for low lying levels etc.
  48. Bethe Ansatz/ inverse scattering method/ Heisenberg model--- this is a field.
  49. spin networks, a-la penrose--- this links up with Chern Simons theory
  50. Canonical GR--- this is badly under represented everywhere--- everyone should have a good Ashtekar variables exposition available.
  51. York Hawking boundary term (not Hawking boundary term)--- this needs to be given and explaned.
  52. Parton physics: Feynman, Gribov, Rajeev's 2d model
  53. 3-d Gauge theory: Feynman Carbali-Nair
  54. Quantum computing: Shor Grover adiabatic algorithms
  55. SUSY exact solutions
  56. Seiberg Witten theory (physics) following 94 paper, or 97 WItten paper (the latter is better)
  57. Nicolai maps (everyone needs to know this, but it is persistently obscure)
  58. Morse theory and SUSY (Witten loves this paper of his, I don't know why, but I trust him)
  59. Giant magnetoresistance--- this field is no longer hot, but used to be.
  60. Fractional QHE (again Chern Simons, but with applications--- noncommutative geometry)
  61. Berry Singularities of wave equations (this was a nice talk I saw by him)
  62. Viscous fluid flows in 2-d capilaries (Feigenbaum did some wonderful work here)
  63. Robust Differential Equation models (these are becoming annoyingly prominent in biophysics)
  64. Deconstruction (Vafa, not Derrida)
  65. Swampland--- this is the most important thing going on in string theory, in my biased opinion.
  66. Energy loss by charged particles in matter--- Bethe formula, experimental data banks, etc.
  67. Hubbard model and High Tc--- the links here are clear, but disputed
  68. 'tHooft model 2d gauge theory in large N
  69. Schwinger model --- baby version 2d QED
  70. Anomaly matching conditions--- these need to be universally understood.
  71. 11-d SUGRA Lagrangian + physical stuff
  72. 10-d SUGRA Lagrangian + string stuff
  73. N=8 4d SUGRA perturbation theory--- this is hot now
  74. Spin 3/2 --- full discussion Rarita Schwinger, SUSY
  75. Spin 2--- full discussion Pauli Fierz, Einstein
  76. Taub NUTs and gravitational KK monopoles
  77. Monopoles in gauge theory--- Dirac, Schwinger, Polyakov 'tHooft
  78. Widom relations (exponent inequalities saturated below the critical dimension)
  79. Clausius Clayperon equation (elementary and well known, but I like this thing--- it's a highlight of 19th century physics)
  80. Triple phase boundaries (recent Widom work in the same tradition)
  81. Degennes theory (polymers N=0 models)
  82. Parisi theory (Spin glasses, replicas, disorder)
  83. Off diagonal long range order (Yang, and the rest)
  84. Lee model (early renormalization)
  85. Khriplovich's style beta-function derivation (physically in terms of polarization)
  86. Parisi Kardar Zhang equation (this is great)
  87. reaction diffusion system (give real chemical systems--- they're Turing complete)
  88. dynamical systems entropy
  89. Kolmogorov Turbulence model (not just the scaling--- the correlation functions Kolmogorov Heisenberg style)
  90. Polyakov 2-d Turbulence model (what the heck is this--- it's a CFT, it satisfies Euler equation, but is it turbulence?)
  91. Kraichnan model (passive scalar advection)
  92. LDA approximation (more Kraichnan)
  93. randomly stirred fluid (Forster, Nelson, Stevens)
  94. Shock waves in compressible fluids--- this is more engineering, but the ideas come from physics, and should be known here.
  95. Martin Siggia Rose formalism--- this needs to be updated with modern path integration techniques. They did it without path integrals.
  96. Bending DNA---- recent Siggia
  97. Melting DNA--- this is a beautiful recent paper by an obscure author, which is very notable--- the double to single stranded transition is exactly described.
  98. Landau singularities--- this is the singularities of Feynman diagrams. Big in the 60s. Dead now.
  99. Twistor calculus.
  100. Perturbation theory from unitarity (this is hot now)
  101. Diffractive Higgs production (recent Veneziano)
  102. Dual Resonance model (old Veneziano)
  103. Large N_f Nc, (70's Veneziano)
  104. QCD sum rules (and all other citation classics--- this is the best of them)
  105. Nuclear hadron scattering--- shadowing etc, Cornell conference '72.
  106. nonlinear sigma model Gell-Mann Levy
  107. nonlinear sigma model in general
  108. String equations of motion
  109. Mukhamal 8d model of Lifschitz points (everybody needs to know this)
  110. Long range statistical models and dimensions (Fisher? It's in Domb and Green)
  111. String bits (Susskind 70s)
  112. Decoherence formalisms: Feynman-Vernon/Caldera-Leggett
  113. Kallen spectral representation and applications
  114. Luttinger liquid
  115. Pomeron-quark coupling (Scholarpedia seems biased on this point--- pomeron quark coupling seems controversial, but I am not sure)

There are hundreds more topic that need expansion. This list is only those things that I thought of, please feel free to add topics which require mathematical content. I will link to the proper article, and place a short summary of required edits. I will try to do as much as I can on this, because I think it is very important.Likebox (talk) 06:21, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

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