Unity from duality : gravity, gauge theory and strings = LUnit�e de la physique fondamentale /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ecole d�et�e de physique th�eorique Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France
Other Authors: Bachas, C
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : New York : Springer, Published in cooperation with the NATO Scientific Affair Division ; EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, 2002
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Lecture 1 Supergravity / B. de Wit
  • Lecture 2. Supersymmetric gauge theories / D.S. Berman, E. Rabinovici
  • Lecture 3. Introduction to duality symmetries in string theory / A. Sen
  • Lecture 4. Les Houches lecture on large N field theories and gravity / J. Maldacena
  • Lecture 5. D-Branes on the conifold and N=1 gauge/gravity dualities / I.R. Klebanov, C.P. Herzog, P. Ouyang
  • Lecture 6. De Sitter space / M. Spradlin, A. Strominger, A. Volovich
  • Lecture 7. String compactification with N=1 supersymmetry / M.R. Douglas
  • Lecture 8. Lectures on open strings, and noncommutative gauge theories / N.A. Nekrasov
  • Lecture 9. Condensates near the Argyres-Douglas point in SU(2) gauge theory with broken N=2 supersymmetry / A. Gorsky
  • Seminar 1. Quantum field theory with extra dimensions / L. Baulieu
  • Seminar 2. Special holonomy spaces and M-theory / M. Cveti�c ... [et al.]
  • Seminar 3. Four dimensional non-critical strings / F. Ferrari
  • Seminar 4. U-opportunities: why is ten equal to ten? / B. Julia
  • Seminar 5. Exact answers to approximate questions - noncommutative dipoles, open Wilson lines and UV-IR duality / Soo-Jong Rey
  • Seminar 6. Open-string models with broken supersymmetry / A. Sagnotti
  • Seminar 7. On a field theory of open strings, Tachyon condensation and closed strings / S.L. Shatashvili
  • Seminar 8. Exceptional magic / S.L. Shatashvili