Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings
Les Houches Session LXXVI, July 30 - August 31, 2001| By: | Michael R. Douglas; Costas Bachas; François David |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9783540002765 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783540362456 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.