Costas Bachas / Adel Bilal / Michael Douglas / Nikita Nekrasov / Francois David (eds.)

Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings

Les Houches Session LXXVI, July 30 - August 31, 2001
Herausgegeben:Bachas, Constantin; Bilal, Adel; Douglas, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a distilled and pedagogical fashion, 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. Further chapters deal with quantum gravity and D-brane geometry. Black hole mechanics and cosmology are treated too, as well as the AdS-CFT correspondence. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in string/M-theory and quantum gravity. It addresses graduate students in physics and astrophysics.

Produktdetails

• Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique 76
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-00276-5
• 2002
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1220g
• ISBN-13: 9783540002765
• ISBN-10: 3540002766
• Artikelnr.: 24462664

Autorenporträt

Costas Bachas, ENS, Paris, France / Adel Bilal, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland / Michael Douglas, Rutgers Univ., USA / Nikita Nekrasov, ITEP, Moscow, Russia / Francois David, CEA Saclay, France

Inhaltsangabe

Supergravity.- Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.- An Introduction to Duality Symmetries in String Theory.- Les Houches Lectures on Large N Field Theories and Gravity.- D-branes on the Conifold and N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities.- De Sitter Space.- String Compactification with N = 1 Supersymmetry.- Lectures on Open Strings, and Noncommutative Gauge Theories.- Condensates near the Argyres-Douglas Point in SU(2) Gauge Theory with Broken N = 2 Supersymmetry.- Quantum Field Theory with Extra Dimensions.- Special Holonomy Spaces and M-Theory.- Four Dimensional Non-Critical Strings.- U-Opportunities: Why is Ten Equal to Ten?.- Exact Answers to Approximate Questions - Noncommutative dipoles, Open Wilson Lines and UV-IR Duality.- Open-String Models With Broken Supersymmetry.- On A Field Theory of Open Strings, Tachyon Condensation and Closed Strings.- Exceptional Magic.