Overview

This volume aims to provide an updated status of the last developments and current problems in string theory in connection with gravity and the physics at the Planck scale. The text also contains discussions on fundamental problems of quantum gravity and the physics at the Planck energy scale in the present-day context, irrespective of strings or any other models. This text is intended for use by high energy physicists and astrophysicists.

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Author:   Antonino Zichichi (European Physical Society, Geneva, Switzerland) ,  Normalized Sanchez (Demirm, Observatoire De Paris, France)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   0
ISBN:  

9789810211684

ISBN 10:   9810211686
Pages:   604
Publication Date:   01 June 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Emergence of discrete structure at the Planck Scale, A. Ashtekar; superstring theory in curved space-time, I. Bars; string thermodynamics, M. Bowick; field strength hair for string black holes, B. Campbell; effective eikonal for strings and gravity at planckian energies, M. Ciafaloni; string propagation in curved space-times, J.J. De Vega; status of multi-loop calculations in string theory, P. Di Vecchia; string/fivebrane duality, M. Duff; geometry and quantum symmetries of superstring vacua, S. Ferrara; new results in string theory in a curved background, E.S. Fradkin; physical effects in wormholes and the chronology protection principle, V.P. Frolov; topology change - kinks and spinors, G.W. Gibbons; quantum aspects of black holes, S. Giddings; strings, fields and forces, M. Green; string theory and nonlinear effects in gravity, R. Iengo; string theory in two dimensions, I. Klebanov; string theory at short distance and the equivalence principle, P.F. Mende; wormholes, new type of self-consistent evolutions and causality, I. Novikov; black hole evaporation and thermodynamics, D. Page; on effective theories of topological strings, E. Rabinovici; string theory and physics at the Planck energy scale, A. Salam; emergence of string instabilities in strong gravitational fields, N. Sanchez; duality, winding modes and string cosmology, A. Tseytlin; hidden symmetries of string cosmology, G. Veneziano; high energy scattering in quantum gravity, E. Verlinde; physics in the Planck domain, J.A. Wheeler.

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