Gao Chen, a 29-year-old mathematician at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, specializes in a branch known as complex differential geometry. Its complexity is not in dealing with complicated structures, but rather because it is based on complex numbersa system of numbers tha
"The Khler Einstein equation describes very large things, as large as the universe, whereas the HermitianYangMills equation describes tiny things, as small as quantum phenomena," explains Gao Chen. "I've built a bridge between these two equations." Gao Chen notes that other bridges existed previ
the finding could find use in string theorythe leading contender of theories that researchers are developing in their quest to unite quantum physics and relativity. "The deformed HermitianYangMills equation that I studied plays an important role in the study of string theory," notes Gao Chen.
