Unity from duality : gravity, gauge theory and strings = L'Unité de la physique fondamentale /

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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Corporate Authors:	Ecole d'été de physique théorique Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France, SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Bachas, C. (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	French and English ; papers all in English.
Published:	New York ; London : Springer, Published in cooperation with the NATO Scientific Affair Division : EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, 2002.
Subjects:	Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics) > Congresses. Gravitational fields > Congresses. Gauge fields (Physics) > Congresses. String models > Congresses. Supersymmetry > Congresses. Gauge fields (Physics) Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics) Gravitational fields. String models. Supersymmetry. Electronic books. Conference proceedings.
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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:	1 online resource (663 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9783540362456 (electronic bk.) 3540362452 (electronic bk.)