Abstract:
In the lectures given at '96 Kashikojima Summer Institute, Amagi-Highland Seminars, and Yukawa Institute Workshop, the old-fashioned dualities and the theory of extended objects are reviewed, starting from 't Hooft-Mandelstam duality and following the author's old works. Application of the old-fashioned dualities to new issues are also given on the D-branes, on the phase transition of B-F theory to Einstein gravity and on the swimming of microorganisms.
  • talk: Kashikojima 1996/08/27
  • talk: Amagi 1996/07/05
  • talk: Kyoto 1996/07/16
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • BF model
  • gravitation
  • duality: transformation