Recent developments in string theory

After briefly reviewing basic concepts of perturbative string theory, we explain in simple terms some of the new findings that created excitement among the string physicists. These developments include non-perturbative dualities and a unified picture that embraces the so-far known theories. (An overview for non-experts)

Note:

Contiunous updates at http://nxth21.cern.ch/~lerche/papers/strings.ps.gz

talk: Hamburg 1997/07/28
string model
supersymmetry
perturbation theory: higher-order
compactification
duality
membrane model: p-brane

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Joseph Polchinski
(
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)

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Joseph Polchinski
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Brian R. Greene
(
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Luis Alvarez-Gaume
(
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(
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DOI:
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Michael E. Peskin
(
- SLAC
)

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- hep-th/9702094

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Andrew Strominger
(
- UC, Santa Barbara
)

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Andrew Strominger
(
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)

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