Super Field Theories

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Light-Cone Physics

   • Lars Brink

   Pages 1-38

3. Supergravity

   • B. De Wit

   Pages 39-65

4. Vacuum Stability in Kaluza-Klein Theories

   • J. Strathdee

   Pages 67-76

5. Lectures on Non-Linear Sigma-Models and Strings

   • C. M. Hull

   Pages 77-168

6. Torus Compactification of the Bosonic String and their Superstring Context

   • F. Englert

   Pages 169-178

7. Hidden Symmetry of Two Dimensional σ-Model Defined on Symmetric Goset Space

   • K. C. Chou

   Pages 179-190

8. Representations of the Two-Dimensional Conformal Group

   • Roman Jackiw

   Pages 191-208

9. Recent Developments in the Path Integral Approach to Anomalies

   • Kazuo Fujikawa

   Pages 209-231

10. Representations of Kac-Moody and Virasoro Algebras

    • Peter Goddard†

    Pages 233-263

11. Dimensions, Indices and Congruence Classes of Representations of Affine Kac-Moody Algebras (with examples for affine E8)

    • S. N. Kass, J. Patera

    Pages 265-273

12. Four-Loop Sigma-Model Beta-Functions Versus α’ 3 Corrections to Superstring Effective Actions

    • D. Zanon

    Pages 275-282

13. Modular Invariance and Finiteness of Five-Point Closed Superstrings

    • C. S. Lam

    Pages 283-292

14. Some Topics in the Low-Energy Physics from Superstrings

    • L. E. Ibáñez

    Pages 293-319

15. Yukawa Couplings Between (2, 1)-Forms

    • P. Candelas

    Pages 321-365

16. The Polyakov Approach and Divergences in Open Superstrings

    • C. P. Burgess†

    Pages 367-388

17. On the Evaluation of Superstring Anomalies

    • R. B. Mann

    Pages 389-397

18. On the Covariant Quantization of Anomalous Gauge Theories

    • C.-M. Viallet

    Pages 399-406

19. Quantum Adiabatic Phases And Chiral Gauge Anomalies

    • Gordon W. Semenoff†

    Pages 407-416

20. Preregularization And The Ambiguity Structure of the Jacobian for Chiral Symmetry Transformations

    • Victor Elias

    Pages 417-426

The Super Field Theory Workshop, held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada July 25 - August 5, 1986 was originally intended to be a sequel to the 1983 Chalk River Workshop on Kaluza-Klein Theories and the 1985 Workshop on Quantum Field Theories held at the University of Western Ontario. The scope of the workshop was therefore not to be very big, with a program of about 20 papers, an anticipated 30 to 45 participants, and with much time scheduled for discussion and personal contact. These goals were soon changed in the face of wide interest in the workshop, both for participation and for giving talks, so that the workshop materialized with about 90 participants and 40 talks. This volume contains the texts, some considerably expanded from the oral version, of most of the talks pre­ sented at the workshop. Not included are a few talks whose manuscripts were not made available to the editors. In the last few years the subject of particle physics and unified field theory has developed in a way not witnessed in the last fifty years: a confluence with mathematics, especially in geometry, topology and algebra at an advanced level. This has vastly expanded the horizon of the disci­ pline and heightened the expectation that a true understanding of the fun­ damental laws of physics may soon be within reach. Most aspects of this new development are covered, many in pedagogical detail, by articles in this volume.

• Boson
• Particle Physics
• cosmology
• field theory
• geometry
• gravity
• path integral
• physics
• quantization
• quantum field theory
• stability
• symmetry
• topology

• Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Canada

  H. C. Lee

• University of Western Ontario, Canada

  V. Elias

• University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada

  G. Kunstatter

• University Of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  R. B. Mann

• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

  K. S. Viswanathan

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