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The articles in this book are written versions of talks presented at a conference organized by the TMR network in Corfu. The main theme of the conference was the interconnection between string theory and gauge theory. These very recent developments draw from many aspects of string theory, supergravity and supersymmetric gauge field theory. For students starting their research there is a great deal of background material that they have to absorb in order to be able to follow current developments. With this in mind the editors have included pedagogical lectures on background material and recent developments. Extensive lecture notes by Bernard de Witt, Renate Kallosh, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Michael Green, Eliezer Rabinovici and John Schwarz make these proceedings a valuable reference for a long time to come. The book addresses researchers as well as students.

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Author:   A. Ceresole ,  C. Kounnas ,  D. Lüst ,  S. Theisen
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   525
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.831kg
ISBN:  

9783662142530

ISBN 10:   3662142538
Pages:   534
Publication Date:   17 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

to M theory and AdS/CFT duality.- Interconnections between type II superstrings, M theory and N=4 Yang-Mills.- Supermembranes and super matrix models.- Black holes, branes and superconformal symmetry.- Old and new approaches to non-perturbative gauge dynamics.- Strings, matrices and black holes.- Orbifolds of AdS 3 and fixpoints of the CFT.- Holography and the Weyl anomaly.- The QCD string and generalized wave equation.- On supergravity duals of N=1 SCFT in four dimensions.- On (Multi-)Center branes and exact string vacua.- 2D Yang-Mills theory as a Matrix String theory.- Interacting strings in matrix string theory.- Graviton scattering in matrix theory and supergravity.- The Osp(8|4) singleton action from the super membrane.- Non-perturbative corrections in N=2 strings.- Brane actions and string dualities.- On heterotic/type I duality in d=8.- Near horizon supergravity superspace.- On higher order ?? corrections to black brane geometries.- D3-Brane dynamics and black holes.- The M five brane on a torus.- Branes and the WDVV equation.- Action for IIB supergravity in 10 dimensions.- U-duality and M-theory, an algebraic approach.- Supersymmetric 3-cycles for N=1 brane box models.- Duality in string cosmology.- Spin dependent D-brane interactions and scattering amplitudes in matrix theory.- Prescriptions for off-shell bosonic string amplitudes.- On Wilson loops and Q -potentials from the AdS/CFT relation at T?0.- Topological strings, contact terms and the holomorphic anomaly.- Equivalence of geometric engineering and Hanany-Witten.- Ramond-ramond (boundary) states.- An effective supergravity for the thermal phases of N=4 strings.- Universal N=4 non-perturbative thermal instabilities; the high-T string phases.- Corrections to macroscopic supersymmetric black-holeentropy.

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