Research Interest of Radu Tatar

      Publication 1:  Proton decay, Yukawa couplings and underlying gauge symmetry in string theory (URL)
      Publication 2:  Geometric transitions, flops and non-Kahler manifolds. II. (URL)
      Publication 3: In the Realm of the Geometric Transitions (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  Recent Research Highlights:
 
 - in a series of recent papers, I have considered models where
QCD-like theories could be extensively studied in String theory. The
models provide a representation of N=1 Super Yang-Mills with
additional flavors in various representations. They all have important
features like confinement and spontaneous symmetry breaking.
 
 - another aspect studied in some of these papers are non-Kahler
compactification manifolds for whom we get a concrete
construction. They are extremely useful in view of the recent
developments involving the Landscape of String vacua.
 
 - my most recent work involved a detailed study of the proton decay
terms appearing in string theory compactification. Our results provide
a complete picture of why String theory can guarantee the absence of
the terms which would imply a rapid proton decay but allow the
presence of the Yukawa couplings.