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Title

Recent directions in particle theory : from superstrings and black holes to the standard model : proceedings of the 1992 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-26 June 1992 / editors, Jeffrey Harvey, Joseph Polchinski.

Author

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (1992 : Boulder, Colo.)

Publication

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Harvey, Jeffrey.
• Polchinski, Joseph Gerard.

Description

vii, 827 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• String models > Congresses
• Standard model (Nuclear physics) > Congresses
• Field theory (Physics) > Congresses
• Astrophysics > Congresses

Contents

Tasi Lectures on Critical String Theory / Eric D'Hoker -- Introduction to Supersymmetry / Martin Rocek -- Precision Tests of the Standard Model / Paul Langacker -- Inflation After COBE: Lectures on Inflationary Cosmology / Michael S. Turner -- Effective Field Theory and the Fermi Surface / Joseph Polchinski -- Lectures on 2D Gravity and 2D String Theory / Paul Ginsparg and Gregory Moore -- String-Based Perturbative Methods for Gauge Theories / Zvi Bern -- Quantum Aspects of Black Holes / Jeffrey A. Harvey and Andrew Strominger -- Introductory Low-Energy Supersymmetry / Howard E. Haber -- Introduction to Topological Field Theories / Robbert Dijkgraaf -- Quantizing Effective Strings / J. D. Cohn and Vipul Periwal -- Quantum Aspects of Black Holes in Two Dimensions / S. P. de Alwis -- Baryon Number Violation in the Standard Model / Michael Dine.

ISBN

981021233X

LCCN

93026813

OCLC

• 28506298
• ocm28506298

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries