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Title

Unity from duality : gravity, gauge theory and strings = L'Unité de la physique fondamentale / edited by C. Bachas ... [et al.]

Author

École de physique des Houches (76th : 2001 : Les Houches, Haute-Savoie, France)

Publication

New York : London : Springer, Published in cooperation with the NATO Scientific Affair Division ; EDP Sciences, Les Ulis, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Bachas, C.

Description

xxxiv, 663 p. : ports.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Unité de la physique fondamentale

Subjects

• Gauge fields (Physics) > Congresses
• String models > Congresses
• Supersymmetry > Congresses
• Gravitational fields > Congresses
• Grand unified theories (Nuclear physics) > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• French and English ; papers all in English.

Contents

Lecture 1. Supergravity / B. de Wit -- Supersymmetry in various dimensions -- Supergravity -- Homogeneous spaces and nonlinear sigma models -- Gauged maximal supergravity in 4 and 5 dimensions -- Supersymmetry in anti-de Sitter space -- Superconformal symmetry -- Lecture 2. Supersymmetric Gauge Theories / D. S. Berman and E. Rabinovici -- Supersymmetric quantum mechanics -- Review of supersymmetric models -- Phases of gauge theories -- Supersymmetric gauge theories/super QCD -- Comments on vacuum energies in scale invariant theories -- Supersymmetric gauge theories and string theory -- Lecture 3. An Introduction to Duality Symmetrics in String Theory / A. Sen -- A brief review of perturbative string theory -- Notion of duality symmetries in string theory -- Analysis of low energy effective field theory -- Precision test of duality: Spectrum of BPS states -- Interrelation between different duality conjectures -- Duality in theories with less than sixteen supersymmetry generators -- M-theory -- Lecture 4. Les Houches Lectures on Large N Field Theories and Gravity / J. Maldacena -- The correspondence -- Tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence -- Correlation functions -- Wilson loops -- Theories at finite temperature -- Lecture 5. D-Branes on the Conifold and N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities / I. R. Klebanov, C. P. Herzog and P. Ouyang -- D3-branes on the conifold -- The RG cascade -- The chiral anomaly -- Deformation of (KS) the conifold -- Infrared physics -- Lecture 6. De Sitter Space / M. Spradlin, A. Strominger and A. Volovich -- Classical geometry of de Sitter space -- Quantum field theory on de Sitter space -- Quantum gravity in de Sitter space -- Calculation of the Brown-York stress tensor -- Lecture 7. String Compactification with N = 1 Supersymmetry / M. R. Douglas -- Introduction and the question of vacuum selection -- From ten dimensional geometry to four dimensional effective field theory -- D-branes with stringy corrections -- Quantum corrections -- Towards the low energy theory of everything -- Lecture 8. Lectures on Open Strings, and Noncommutative Gauge Theories / N. A. Nekrasov -- Background independence -- BPS algebras -- Fermions in the Y background -- Non-trivial backgrounds -- Conclusions and outlook -- Lecture 9. Condensates Near the Argyres-Douglas Point in SU(2) Gauge Theory with Broken N = 2 Supersymmetry / A. Gorsky -- Matter and gaugino condensates -- Dyon condensates -- The Argyres-Douglas point: How well the theory is defined -- Conclusions -- Seminar 1. Quantum Field Theory with Extra Dimensions / L. Baulieu -- The fields -- The action at level n -- Seminar 2. Special Holonomy Spaces and M-Theory / M. Cvetic, G. W. Gibbons, H. Lu and C. N. Pope -- Resolution via transgression -- Special holonomy spaces, harmonic forms and resolved branes -- New G[subscript 2] holonomy metrics -- Conclusions and open avenues -- Seminar 3. Four Dimensional Non-Critical Strings / F. Ferrari -- Many paths to the gauge/string duality -- Four dimensional non-critical strings -- Open problems -- Seminar 4. U-Opportunities: Why is Ten Equal to Ten? / B. Julia -- Classifications -- Real forms of Lie algebras -- Chaos controlled by symmetry -- Seminar 5. Exact Answers to Approximate Questions - Noncommutative Dipoles. Open Wilson Lines and UV-IR Duality / Soo-Jong Rey -- Introduction and conjectures -- Flying noncommutative dipole -- Open wilson lines: How and why? -- Free and interacting OWLs -- Closed strings out of open strings -- Seminar 6. Open-String Models with Broken Supersymmetry / A. Sagnotti -- Broken supersymmetry and type-0 models -- Scherk-Schwarz deformations and brane supersymmetry -- Brane supersymmetry breaking -- Seminar 7. On a Field Theory of Open Strings. Tachyon Condensation and Closed Strings / S. L. Shatashvili -- Seminar 8. Exceptional Magic / S. L. Shatashvili -- G[subscript 2] -- Spin(7) -- Topological twist.

ISBN

• 3540002766 (Springer)
• 2868836259 (EDP Sciences, Les Ulis)

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries