Biography:Tamiaki Yoneya

Tamiaki Yoneya (米谷民明, Yoneya Tamiaki) (born 1947) is a Japanese physicist. Independently of Joel Scherk and John H. Schwarz, he realized that string theory describes, among other things, the force of gravity. Yoneya has worked on the stringy extension of the uncertainty principle for many years.

Selected publications

• "Quantum gravity and the zero-slope limit of the generalized Virasoro model." Lettere Al Nuovo Cimento (1971–1985) 8, no. 16 (1973): 951–955. doi:10.1007/BF02727806
• "Z(N) topological excitations in Yang-Mills theories: duality and confinement." Nuclear Physics B 144, no. 1 (1978): 195–218. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(78)90502-3
• "On the interpretation of minimal length in string theories." Modern Physics Letters A 4, no. 16 (1989): 1587–1595. doi:10.1142/S0217732389001817
• with Antal Jevicki: "A deformed matrix model and the black-hole background in two-dimensional string theory." Nuclear Physics B 411, no. 1 (1994): 64–96. doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90054-X
• "Schild action and space-time uncertainty principle in string theory." Progress of Theoretical Physics 97, no. 6 (1997): 949–961. doi:10.1143/PTP.97.949
• with Miao Li: "Pointlike D-brane dynamics and space-time uncertainty relation." Physical Review Letters 78, no. 7 (1997): 1219. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1219
• "D-particles, D-instantons, and a space-time uncertainty principle in string theory." arXiv preprint hep-th/9707002 (1997).
• with Antal Jevicki: "Space-time uncertainty principle and conformal symmetry in D-particle dynamics." Nuclear Physics B 535, no. 1–2 (1998): 335–348. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00578-1
• with Miao Li: "Short-distance space-time structure and black holes in string theory: a short review of the present status." Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 10, no. 2–3 (1999): 423–443. doi:10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00198-2
• with Antal Jevicki and Yoichi Kazama: "Generalized conformal symmetry in D-brane matrix models." Physical Review D 59, no. 6 (1999): 066001. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.066001
• with Yuji Okawa: "Multi-body interactions of D-particles in supergravity and matrix theory." Nuclear Physics B 538, no. 1–2 (1999): 67–99. doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00700-7
• "String theory and the space-time uncertainty principle." Progress of Theoretical Physics 103, no. 6 (2000): 1081–1125. doi:10.1143/PTP.103.1081
• with Hideyoshi Awata, Miao Li, and Djordje Minic: "On the quantization of Nambu brackets." Journal of High Energy Physics 2001, no. 02 (2001): 013. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/02/013

• "Gravity from strings: personal reminiscence on early developments." arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0079 (2008).