Ebook: Progress in String Theory and M-Theory

Recent developments in supersymmetric field theory, string theory, and brane theory have been revolutionary. The main focus of the present volume is developments of M-theory and its applications to superstring theory, quantum gravity, and the theory of elementary particles. Topics included are D-branes, boundary states, and world volume solitons. Anti-De-Sitter quantum field theory is explained, emphasising the way it can enforce the holography principle, together with the relation to black hole physics and the way Branes provide the microscopic interpretation for the entropy of black holes. Developments in D-branes within type-I superstring and related theories are described. There are also possible phenomenological implications of superstring theory that would lie within the range of quantum gravity effects in the future generation of accelerators, around 1 TeV.

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Recent developments in supersymmetric field theory, string theory, and brane theory have been revolutionary. The main focus of the present volume is developments of M-theory and its applications to superstring theory, quantum gravity, and the theory of elementary particles. Topics included are D-branes, boundary states, and world volume solitons. Anti-De-Sitter quantum field theory is explained, emphasising the way it can enforce the holography principle, together with the relation to black hole physics and the way Branes provide the microscopic interpretation for the entropy of black holes. Developments in D-branes within type-I superstring and related theories are described. There are also possible phenomenological implications of superstring theory that would lie within the range of quantum gravity effects in the future generation of accelerators, around 1 TeV.

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Recent developments in supersymmetric field theory, string theory, and brane theory have been revolutionary. The main focus of the present volume is developments of M-theory and its applications to superstring theory, quantum gravity, and the theory of elementary particles. Topics included are D-branes, boundary states, and world volume solitons. Anti-De-Sitter quantum field theory is explained, emphasising the way it can enforce the holography principle, together with the relation to black hole physics and the way Branes provide the microscopic interpretation for the entropy of black holes. Developments in D-branes within type-I superstring and related theories are described. There are also possible phenomenological implications of superstring theory that would lie within the range of quantum gravity effects in the future generation of accelerators, around 1 TeV.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages xi-xi
Scales of String/M Theory....Pages 1-14
On the Heterotic/F-Theory Duality in Eight Dimensions....Pages 15-46
Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity....Pages 47-116
Black Holes and the Phases of Brane Thermodynamics....Pages 117-145
Non-BPS D-Brane Systems....Pages 147-185
Non-BPS States And Branes In String Theory....Pages 187-234
Lectures on Superconformal Quantum Mechanics and Multi-Black Hole Moduli Spaces....Pages 235-264
Brane Theory Solitons....Pages 265-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
D-Branestrahlung....Pages 299-303
Strings on BTZ Black Holes....Pages 305-308
On the Non-Abelian Born-Infeld Action....Pages 309-312
Anomalous Couplings Of Non-BPS D-Branes....Pages 313-317
From a Conformal Anomaly to a Theory of Tensionless Strings?....Pages 319-322
Comments on Non-Supersymmetric Type I Vacua....Pages 323-326
S-Matrices for Planckian Scattering....Pages 327-330
K-Theory and D-Branes on Non-Commutative Tori....Pages 331-334
Generalized Calibrations....Pages 335-338
Aspects of Heterotic/M-Theory Duality in D=3....Pages 339-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-346
Gauge Theory Scattering from the AdS/CFT Correspondence....Pages 347-351
Flat Connections for Yang-Mills Theories on the 3-Torus....Pages 297-297
From Topological Field Theories to Covariant Matrix Strings....Pages 353-356
Field Theory Duals from (Non)-Critical Type 0 Strings....Pages 357-360
Duality and Selfduality of Chiral Boson Fields in Various Dimensions....Pages 361-365
Anti-De Sitter Fragmentation....Pages 367-371
On ADS3 String Theory....Pages 373-378
Discrete U-Duality Groups....Pages 379-382
Supersymmetric Worldvolume Solitons....Pages 383-387
WZ Couplings of D-Branes and Oplanes....Pages 389-392
Holography for Coset Spaces....Pages 393-396
Back Matter....Pages 397-400
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