Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings Les Houches Session LXXVI, July 30 - August 31, 2001

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...

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Other Authors: Bachas, Constantin P. (Editor), Bilal, Adel (Editor), Douglas, Michael R. (Editor), Nekrasov, Nikita A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XXXIV, 664 p online resource
ISBN:9783540362456