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Michael R. Douglas

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Selected writings

On the $\mathbb{C}P^N$ sigma-model and its quantum cohomology ring:

• M. F. Bourdeau, Michael R. Douglas, Topological-antitopological fusion and the large $N$ $\mathbb{C}P^N$ model, Nucl. Phys. B 420 (1994) 243-267 [doi:hep-th/9312095, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90380-8]

On the AdS/CFT correspondence:

• Tom Banks, Michael Douglas, Gary Horowitz, Emil Martinec, AdS Dynamics from Conformal Field Theory (arXiv:hep-th/9808016, spire:474214)

On Yang-Mills instantons as Dp-D(p+4) brane bound states:

• Michael Douglas, Branes within branes, In: Baulieu L., Di Francesco P., Douglas M., Kazakov V., Picco M., Windey P. (eds.) Strings, Branes and Dualities NATO ASI Series (Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences), vol 520. Springer, Dordrecht (arxiv:hep-th/9512077, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_10)

• Michael Douglas, Gauge fields and D-branes, J. Geom. Phys. 28 (1998) 255-262 (arXiv:hep-th/9604198)

On 2d QCD:

• Michael Douglas, Keke Li, Matthias Staudacher, Generalized two-dimensional QCD (arXiv:hep-th/9401062)

On chiral fermions in intersecting D-brane models:

• Micha Berkooz, Michael Douglas, Robert Leigh, Branes intersecting at angles, Nucl. Phys. B480:265-278, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9606139)

On the Yang-Mills mass gap-problem:

• Michael Douglas, Report on the Status of the Yang-Mills Millennium Prize Problem (2004) [pdf]

• Michael R. Douglas: The Yang–Mills Millennium problem, Nature Reviews Physics 8 (2026) 86–97 [doi:10.1038/s42254-025-00909-2]

On F-theory on K3:

• Michael Douglas, Daniel S. Park, Christian Schnell, The Cremmer-Scherk Mmechanism in F-theory compactifications on K3 manifolds, JHEP05 (2014) 135 (arXiv:1403.1595)

On large language models:

• Michael R. Douglas, Large language models, arXiv:2307.05782

On KK-compactification in string theory:

• Michael R. Douglas, Liam McAllister, Compactification of Superstring Theory, in Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics 2nd ed [arXiv:2310.20118]

Formalization in Lean of the construction of the free scalar quantum field:

• Michael R. Douglas, Sarah Hoback, Anna Mei, Ron Nissim: Formalization of QFT [arXiv:2603.15770]

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