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'''Luis Álvarez-Gaumé''' (born 1955) is a Spanish [[theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] who works on [[string theory]] and quantum gravity.

Luis Álvarez-Gaumé obtained his PhD in 1981 from [[Stony Brook University]] and worked from 1981 to 1984 at [[Harvard University]] as a Junior Fellow, before he moved to [[Boston University]] to work as a professor. From 1986 until 2016, Álvarez-Gaumé was a permanent member of the [[CERN]] Theoretical Physics unit. In 2016, he became the director of the [[Simons Center for Geometry and Physics]] at Stony Brook.

In the 1980s, Álvarez-Gaumé had various important contributions to the field of string theory and its mathematical framework. Together with [[Edward Witten]] he showed in 1983 that [[quantum field theories]] generally have [[gravitational anomaly|gravitational anomalies]].<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Luis |last1=Álvarez-Gaumé |first2=Edward |last2=Witten |title=Gravitational Anomalies |journal= Nuclear Physics B|volume=234 |year=1984 |issue=2 |pages=269–330 |doi=10.1016/0550-3213(84)90066-X |bibcode=1984NuPhB.234..269A }}</ref> Shortly after this, [[Michael Green (physicist)|Michael Green]] and [[John Henry Schwarz|John Schwarz]] showed that such anomalies are avoided in various realizations of superstring theory. Álvarez-Gaumé is also known for a physical proof of the [[Atiyah–Singer theorem]] using [[supersymmetry]].
His work spans a range of different subjects, including string perturbation theory at higher orders, quantum field theories on [[Riemann surface]]s,<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Luis |last1=Álvarez-Gaumé |first2=Gregory |last2=Moore |author-link3=Cumrun Vafa |first3=Cumrun |last3=Vafa |title=Theta functions, modular invariance and strings |journal= Communications in Mathematical Physics|volume=106 |year=1986 |issue=1 |pages=1–40 |doi=10.1007/BF01210925 |bibcode=1986CMaPh.106....1A |s2cid=121490383 |url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1104115581 }}</ref>
quantum groups, as well as dualities in string theory and black holes in string theory.<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1016/j.physletb.2007.04.041 | title=Scaling phenomena in gravity from QCD | year=2007 | last1=Álvarez-Gaumé | first1=Luis | last2=Gómez | first2=César | last3=Vázquez-Mozo | first3=Miguel A. | journal=Physics Letters B | volume=649 | issue=5–6 | pages=478–482 | arxiv=hep-th/0611312 | bibcode=2007PhLB..649..478A | s2cid=14796843 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1002/prop.200900066 | title=Scaling Phenomena in gravity and Yang-Mills theories, or black hole formation and its unitarization | year=2009 | last1=Álvarez-Gaumé | first1=Luis | journal=Fortschritte der Physik | volume=57 | issue=5–7 | pages=327–328 | bibcode=2009ForPh..57..327A | s2cid=121687991 }}</ref>
In the 1990s, Álvarez-Gaumé studied supersymmetry breaking at low energies (in ''N'' = 2 SUSY [[Yang–Mills theory|gauge theories]]).<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1142/S0217751X98000184 | title=Softly Broken ''N'' = 2 QCD with Massive Quark Hypermultiplets, I | year=1998 | last1=Álvarez-Gaumé | first1=Luis | last2=Mariño | first2=Marcos | last3=Zamora | first3=Frederic | journal=International Journal of Modern Physics A | volume=13 | issue=3 | pages=403–430 | arxiv=hep-th/9703072 | bibcode=1998IJMPA..13..403A }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1142/S0217751X98000810 | title=Softly Broken ''N'' = 2 QCD with Massive Quark Hypermultiplets, II | year=1998 | last1=Álvarez-Gaumé | first1=Luis | last2=Mariño | first2=Marcos | last3=Zamora | first3=Frederic | journal=International Journal of Modern Physics A | volume=13 | issue=11 | pages=1847–1880 | arxiv=hep-th/9707017 | bibcode=1998IJMPA..13.1847A | s2cid=15122485 }}</ref> He has also co-authored a textbook on [[quantum field theory]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Luis |last1=Álvarez-Gaumé |first2=Miguel |last2=Vázquez-Mozo |title=An Invitation to Quantum Field Theory |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |isbn=978-3-642-23728-7 }}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/L.Alvarez.Gaume.1 Álvarez-Gaumé's profile on INSPIRE-HEP]

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