Not many people know that I tried to dabble with string theory during my PhD studies, It became the last chapter of the thesis and extended the work of Isham and Linden. However, I consider it as incomplete since I did not get to construct the representations of the canonical group (which is a loop group). At the time, I was rushing to finish my studies as my scholarship was about to end. I did try to learn about loop groups and even bought the (expensive) book by Pressley & Segal (at the time only available in hardcover) but it became too difficult for me. This chapter never got published (apart presenting it in a lcal conference and Mike Gunn was there during the conference, asking questions about the construction); I knew it hasn't got enough material to appear as a proper paper.
I have not done any work on strings since then. Fast forward to the present, a different 'string' became my preoccupation and I have a collaborator. Being mostly at home, I had to babysit my cats while the rest go to work. The three-legged cat, Hitam, is the most active and I had to play with him to get him settled down.
Here is a video of how he likes to do 'research on strings'.
Perhaps this will be my permanent 'job'.
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