Author: Lárus Thorlacius
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000-09-30
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780792364757
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Papers from an August 1999 NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Iceland report on recent advances in superstring theory, which is the leading candidate for a unified description of all known elementary particles and interactions. Chapters examine D-branes in string theory, moduli spaces of Calaba-Yau compactifications, the matrix model of M-theory, the holographic principle, Born-Infeld actions and D-brane physics, superconformal quantum mechanics and multi-black hole moduli spaces, large-N gauge theories, random surfaces, and Lorentzian and Euclidean quantum gravity. The editors are affiliated with the Science Institute of the University of Iceland. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR