Post by Robert C. HellingYou don't get an answer because your question is far too vague and
unspecific.
I don't think that the question What are the main trends in a scientific
field in the last couple of months is a vague question.
Post by Robert C. HellingIt's like asking 'what are the recent trends in literature point me to
good books'.
Let us hope that string theory has not yet degenerated to the level of
literature and that it has not yet adopted its (lit crit) methods to
judge the value of ideas.
The last couple of months have not created any major trends that everyone
would find extraordinarily powerful but people continue to work on trends
that have been hot for two years or so, such as the higher order
corrections to black hole entropy, relations to topological strings, flux
vacua, landscape, swampland, general predictions of string theory, as well
as 3-year-old trends such as integrability in AdS/CFT + Bethe Ansaetze and
many others.
If you ask at a better moment, you may get a more focused and exciting
answer. In that case, it is likely that you get the answer before you ask
the question. ;-)
Best wishes
LM
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