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Strings, Branes and Dualities

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  • © 1999

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 520)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Lectures

  2. Seminars

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As recent developments have shown, supersymmetric quantum field theory and string theory are intimately related, with advances in one area often shedding light on the other. The organising ideas of most of these advances are the notion of duality and the physics of higher dimensional objects or p-branes.
The topics covered in the present volume include duality in field theory, in particular in supersymmetric field theory and supergravity, and in string theory. The Seiberg-Witten theory and its recent developments are also covered in detail. A large fraction of the volume is devoted to the current state of the art in M-theory, in particular its underlying superalgebra as well as its connection with superstring and N = 2 strings. The physics of D-branes and its essential role in the beautiful computation of the black hole entropy is also carefully covered. Finally, the last two sets of lectures are devoted to the exciting matrix approach to non-perturbative string theory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France

    Laurent Baulieu, Marco Picco

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

    Philippe Francesco

  • Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

    Michael Douglas

  • Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

    Michael Douglas

  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

    Vladimir Kazakov

  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France

    Paul Windey

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