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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.
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Book Title: Strings, Branes and Dualities
Editors: Laurent Baulieu, Philippe Francesco, Michael Douglas, Vladimir Kazakov, Marco Picco, Paul Windey
Series Title: Nato Science Series C:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5344-7Published: 30 November 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5989-3Published: 23 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4730-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1389-2185
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 493
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics