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Book Strings  Branes and Dualities

    Book Details:
  • Author : L. Baulieu
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 9401147302
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Strings Branes and Dualities written by L. Baulieu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Fields  Strings  and Duality

Download or read book Fields Strings and Duality written by Brian Greene and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The past year has witnessed truly remarkable developments in our understanding of string theory. Fields, Strings and Duality - TASI 96 is an invaluable collection of review papers on the subject, contributed by the most prominent researchers in the field. This volume is a scientific treasure for graduate students, researchers and all others who are interested in the progress of theoretical physics."--Publisher's website

Book Gauge Gravity Duality

Download or read book Gauge Gravity Duality written by Martin Ammon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook on this important topic, for graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics.

Book Dualities In Gauge And String Theories   Proceedings Of Apctp Winter School

Download or read book Dualities In Gauge And String Theories Proceedings Of Apctp Winter School written by Yongmin Cho and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Lectures:Supermembranes: An Introduction (M J Duff)An Introduction to p-Branes (K S Stelle)Notes on Matrix Strings and Fivebranes (H Verlinde et al.)Intersecting Branes (J P Gauntlett)BPS Bound States, Supermembranes, and T-Duality in M Theory (J G Russo)D=6, N=1 String Vacua and Duality (L E Ibáñez & A M Uranga)Flat Symplectic Bundles of N-Extended Supergravities, Central Charges and Black-Hole Entropy (S Ferrara et al.)Black Hole Thermodynamics and String Theory (S R Das)Seminars:One-Instanton Calculations in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories (K Ito)Field Theory on Coadjoint Orbit and Self-Dual Chern-Simons Solitons (P Oh)Cohomological Yang-Mills Theory in Eight Dimensions (H Kanno et al.)Charged BTZ Black Hole as a Global Vortex in Anti-de Sitter Space–Time: A Bridge by Duality (Y Kim et al.)Tensionless Gravitational String in D=6, N=1 Heterotic String Vacua (N Kim et al.)Quantum Ergoregion Instability (G Kang) Readership: High energy physicists. Keywords:

Book String Theory and M Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katrin Becker
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-12-07
  • ISBN : 9780521860697
  • Pages : 756 pages

Download or read book String Theory and M Theory written by Katrin Becker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle physics, black holes in string theory and M-theory, and the microscopic origin of black-hole entropy. It concludes with Matrix theory, the AdS/CFT duality and its generalizations. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in modern string theory, and will make an excellent textbook for a one-year course on string theory. It contains over 120 exercises with solutions, and over 200 homework problems with solutions available on a password protected website for lecturers at www.cambridge.org/9780521860697.

Book Duality and Supersymmetric Theories

Download or read book Duality and Supersymmetric Theories written by David I. Olive and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic introduction to electromagnetic duality and its generalisations. The authors are the leading figures in this exciting new area of mathematical physics, and their lectures have been organised not only to link with each other but also to describe the fundamental ideas, the latest developments, and some earlier work whose significance has only recently become apparent. This will be essential reading for all those working in mathematical physics.

Book Unity from Duality  Gravity  Gauge Theory and Strings

Download or read book Unity from Duality Gravity Gauge Theory and Strings written by Constantin P. Bachas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-26 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume of the famous summer school in Les Houches cover the recent developments in supersymmetric string theory, the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and string duality. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in string/M-theory and quantum gravity.

Book Aspects of Some Dualities in String Theory

Download or read book Aspects of Some Dualities in String Theory written by Bom Soo Kim and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aspects of String Dualities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacopo Orgera
  • Publisher : ProQuest
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780549269922
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Aspects of String Dualities written by Jacopo Orgera and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis we investigate some aspects of String Dualities. In particular, in the context of Twistor-String/Field Theories duality, we present some partial results toward the understanding of Conformal Supergravity amplitudes. Also, in the context of AdS/CFT duality, we investigate: the role of Euclidean Wormholes in quantum de-coherence and the semiclassical decay of certain non-supersimmetric vacua.

Book Symmetries of Maldacena Wilson Loops from Integrable String Theory

Download or read book Symmetries of Maldacena Wilson Loops from Integrable String Theory written by Hagen Münkler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses hidden symmetries in the Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) duality. This duality is a modern concept that asserts an exact duality between conformally invariant quantum field theories and string theories in higher dimensional Anti-de Sitter spaces, and in this way provides a completely new tool for the study of strongly coupled quantum field theories. In this setting, the book focuses on the Wilson loop, an important observable in four-dimensional maximally supersymmetric gauge theory. The dual string description using minimal surfaces enables a systematic study of the hidden symmetries of the loop. The book presents major findings, including the discovery of a master symmetry for strings in general symmetric spaces, its relation to the Yangian symmetry algebra and its action on the minimal surfaces appearing in the dual string description of the Wilson loop. Moreover, it clarifies why certain symmetries are not present on the gauge theory side for purely bosonic Wilson loops and, lastly, how the supersymmetrization of the minimal surface problem for type IIB superstrings can be undertaken. As such, it substantially increases our understanding and use of infinite dimensional symmetries occurring in the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Book New Dualities of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories

Download or read book New Dualities of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories written by Jörg Teschner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews a number of spectacular advances that have been made in the study of supersymmetric quantum field theories in the last few years. Highlights include exact calculations of Wilson loop expectation values, and highly nontrivial quantitative checks of the long-standing electric-magnetic duality conjectures The book starts with an introductory article presenting a survey of recent advances, aimed at a wide audience with a background and interest in theoretical physics. The following articles are written for advanced students and researchers in quantum field theory, string theory and mathematical physics, our goal being to familiarize these readers with the forefront of current research. The topics covered include recent advances in the classification and vacuum structure of large families of N=2 supersymmetric field theories, followed by an extensive discussion of the localisation method, one of the most powerful tools for exact studies of supersymmetric field theories. The quantities that have been studied in this way are partition functions, expectation values of line operators, and supersymmetric indices. The book also reviews recently discovered connections between SUSY field theories in four dimensions and two-dimensional conformal field theory. These connections have a counterpart in relations between three-dimensional gauge theories and Chern-Simons theory; the book’s closing chapters explore connections with string theory.

Book Strings  Branes and Dualities

Download or read book Strings Branes and Dualities written by L. Baulieu and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Universal Coefficient Theorem and Quantum Field Theory

Download or read book The Universal Coefficient Theorem and Quantum Field Theory written by Andrei-Tudor Patrascu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes a new connection between algebraic geometry, topology, number theory and quantum field theory. It offers a pedagogical introduction to algebraic topology, allowing readers to rapidly develop basic skills, and it also presents original ideas to inspire new research in the quest for dualities. Its ambitious goal is to construct a method based on the universal coefficient theorem for identifying new dualities connecting different domains of quantum field theory. This thesis opens a new area of research in the domain of non-perturbative physics—one in which the use of different coefficient structures in (co)homology may lead to previously unknown connections between different regimes of quantum field theories. The origin of dualities is an issue in fundamental physics that continues to puzzle the research community with unexpected results like the AdS/CFT duality or the ER-EPR conjecture. This thesis analyzes these observations from a novel and original point of view, mainly based on a fundamental connection between number theory and topology. Beyond its scientific qualities, it also offers a pedagogical introduction to advanced mathematics and its connection with physics. This makes it a valuable resource for students in mathematical physics and researchers wanting to gain insights into (co)homology theories with coefficients or the way in which Grothendieck's work may be connected with physics.

Book Duality in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory

Download or read book Duality in String Theory and Quantum Field Theory written by Savdeep S. Sethi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Progress in String Theory and M Theory

Download or read book Progress in String Theory and M Theory written by L. Baulieu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.