Arkady Aleksandrovich Tseytlin (Аркадий Александрович Цейтлин; born August 31, 1956, in Moscow) is a Soviet, Russian, and British theoretical physicist. He is one of the world's leading experts on superstring theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence.

In 1974, Tseytlin matriculated at Moscow State University, graduating in 1979. From 1981 to 1984, he studied at the Lebedev Physical Institute, where he earned a doctorate in physics under the supervision of E. S. Fradkin. In 1984, Tseytlin joined the academic staff of the Lebedev Physical Institute. Since 1992, he has been a professor at Imperial College London.[1][2]

Tseytlin has made fundamental contributions to the development of modern string theory. In particular, he, along with E. S. Fradkin, developed the sigma-model approach to string dynamics in curved spacetime and established the central role of the Born-Infeld action in open string theory.[3][4] He also constructed, jointly with Ruslan Romanovich Metsaev, a superstring action in anti-de Sitter space, which plays a central role in the duality between gauge fields and strings and underlies the exact solution of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory based on integrability.[5]

During the 1980s, Yuri Golfand expressed keen interest in the research of Tseytlin and Fradkin.[6] To celebrate Andrei Sakharov's 65th birthday, Tseytlin, along with his colleague Vladimir Yakovlevich Fainberg (1926–2010), visited Sakharov in his exile in Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) in May 1986.[7][8]

In 2011, Tseytlin was awarded the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Medal and Prize of the UK-based Institute of Physics. In 2023 he was awarded the Pomeranchuk Prize of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) from Moscow.

Arkady Tseytlin on INSPIRE-HEP

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  1. ^ "Arkady Tseytlin (Imperial College London and Lebedev Institute)". inspirehep.net.
  2. ^ "Profile: Professor Arkady Tseytlin". Imperial College London.
  3. ^ Fradkin, E. S.; Tseytlin, A. A. (1985). "Fields as excitations of quantized coordinates" (PDF). JETP Lett. 41 (4).
  4. ^ Tseytlin, A. A. (2001). "Sigma model approach to string theory effective actions with tachyons". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 42 (7): 2854–2871. arXiv:hep-th/0011033. doi:10.1063/1.1376129. arXiv preprint
  5. ^ "Arkady A. Tseytlin". research.com.
  6. ^ Shifman, Mikhail A., ed. (2000). "Born-Infeld action, supersymmetry and string theory by A. A. Tseytlin". The many faces of the superworld: Yuri Golfand memorial volume. World Scientific Publishing. pp. 417–452.
  7. ^ Fainberg, Vladimir Ya. (1990). "Precursor of Perestroika". Physics Today. 43 (8): 40–45. Bibcode:1990PhT....43h..40F. doi:10.1063/1.881253.
  8. ^ "In memory of Vladimir Yakovlevich Fainberg" (PDF). Physics — Uspekhi. 2011. pp. 539–540.