String theory dualities
Aug, 199612 pages
Part of Frontiers in quantum field theory. Proceedings, International Workshop, Wulumuqi, China, August 10-19, 1996, 36-47, DPF '96, The Minneapolis Meeting : Proceedings of the 9th Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, Twin City Campus, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 11-15 August 1996
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The past year has seen enormous progress in string theory. It has become clear that all of the different string theories are different limits of a single theory. Moreover, in certain limits, one obtains a new, eleven-dimensional structure known as -theory. Strings with unusual boundary conditions, known as D-branes, turn out to be soliton solutions of string theory. These have provided a powerful tool to probe the structure of these theories. Most dramatically, they have yielded a partial understanding of the thermodynamics of black holes in a consistent quantum mechanical framework. In this brief talk, I attempt to give some flavor of these developments.- talk: Minneapolis 1996/08/10
- string model
- supersymmetry
- duality
- field theory: soliton
- moduli space
- membrane model: p-brane
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