Dualities in gauge and string theories : proceedings of APCTP Winter School, Sorak Mountain Resort, Korea, 17-28 February 1997 /
An analysis of dualities in gauge and string theories. It is divided into two parts, the first containing lectures and the second containing seminars from the APCTO Winter School in Korea. Subjects addressed include intersecting branes and cohomological Yang-Mills theory in eight dimensions.
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
Publication Dates: | 1998. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/3881#t=toc |
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An analysis of dualities in gauge and string theories. It is divided into two parts, the first containing lectures and the second containing seminars from the APCTO Winter School in Korea. Subjects addressed include intersecting branes and cohomological Yang-Mills theory in eight dimensions. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii,399pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9789814447287 |
Index Number: | QC793 |
CLC: | O413.3-532 |
Contents: | Supermembranes: an introduction / M. J. Duff -- An introduction to p-branes / K. S. Stelle -- Notes on matrix strings and fivebranes / R. Dijkgraaf, E. Verlinde and H. Verlinde -- 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. Ibanez and A. M. Uranga -- Flat symplectic bundles of N-extended supergravities, central charges and black-hole entropy / L. Andrianopoli, R. D'Auria and S. Ferrara -- Black hole thermodynamics and string theory / S. R. Das -- 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 / L. Baulieu, H. Kanno and I. M. Singer -- Charged BTZ black hole as a global vortex in anti-de Sitter spacetime: a bridge by duality / N. Kim, Y. Kim and K. Kimm -- Tensionless gravitational string in D = 6, N = 1 heterotic string vacua / N. Kim ... [et al.] -- Quantum ergoregion instability / G. Kang. |