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Book DetailsAMS/IP Studies in Advanced MathematicsVolume: 44; 2008; 244 ppMSC: Primary 81; 83
Over the past decade string theory has had an increasing impact on many areas of physics: high energy and hadronic physics, gravitation and cosmology, mathematical physics and even condensed matter physics. The impact has been through many major conceptual and methodological developments in quantum field theory in the past fifteen years. In addition, string theory has exerted a dramatic influence on developments in contemporary mathematics, including Gromov–Witten theory, mirror symmetry in complex and symplectic geometry, and important ramifications in enumerative geometry.
This volume is derived from a conference of younger leading practitioners around the common theme: “What is string theory?” The talks covered major current topics, both mathematical and physical, related to string theory.
Titles in this series are co-published with International Press of Boston, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
ReadershipGraduate students and research mathematicians interested in string theory in mathematics and physics.
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Table of Contents
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Chapters
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Puff field theory
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Mottness and strong coupling
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Holographic aspects of generalized electric-magnetic dualities
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Null and spacelike singularities and gauge-gravity duality
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Is SUSY natural?
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Brane induced gravity: Codimension-2
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Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT and the fate of the BTZ singularity
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Heterotic geometry and fluxes
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On the spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory
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Resolving black hole microstates
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Geometry of supersymmetric type II solutions
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Resolving gravitational singularities
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Recent developments in heterotic compactifications
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Worldsheet instantons and torsion curves
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Additional Material
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Over the past decade string theory has had an increasing impact on many areas of physics: high energy and hadronic physics, gravitation and cosmology, mathematical physics and even condensed matter physics. The impact has been through many major conceptual and methodological developments in quantum field theory in the past fifteen years. In addition, string theory has exerted a dramatic influence on developments in contemporary mathematics, including Gromov–Witten theory, mirror symmetry in complex and symplectic geometry, and important ramifications in enumerative geometry.
This volume is derived from a conference of younger leading practitioners around the common theme: “What is string theory?” The talks covered major current topics, both mathematical and physical, related to string theory.
Titles in this series are co-published with International Press of Boston, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in string theory in mathematics and physics.
-
Chapters
-
Puff field theory
-
Mottness and strong coupling
-
Holographic aspects of generalized electric-magnetic dualities
-
Null and spacelike singularities and gauge-gravity duality
-
Is SUSY natural?
-
Brane induced gravity: Codimension-2
-
Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT and the fate of the BTZ singularity
-
Heterotic geometry and fluxes
-
On the spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory
-
Resolving black hole microstates
-
Geometry of supersymmetric type II solutions
-
Resolving gravitational singularities
-
Recent developments in heterotic compactifications
-
Worldsheet instantons and torsion curves
