Dual Resonance Models and Superstrings

The following sections are included:

• PREFACE TO REPRINTED AND EXPANDED EDITION

• ORIGINAL PREFACE

• TABLE OF CONTENTS

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• DEFINITIONS AND KINEMATICS

• SINGLE VARIABLE DISPERSION RELATIONS

• RESONANCES AND REGGE POLES

• SUPERCONVERGENCE AND FINITE ENERGY SUM RULES

• FESR DUALITY; SCHMID LOOPS

• HARARI-FREUND ANSATZ

• EXCHANGE DEGENERACY

• DUALITY DIAGRAMS

• THE SITUATION OF MID-1968

• MULTIPARTICLE PRODUCTION

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• VENEZIANO’S BETA FUNCTION AND ITS PROPERTIES

• FIVE-POINT FUNCTION

• N-POINT FUNCTION

• KOBA-NIELSEN FORM AND PROJECTIVE INVARIANCE

• OPERATOR FACTORISATION AND LEVEL DENSITY

• SATELLITE TERMS

• AMPLITUDE FOR PION-PION SCATTERING

• SHAPIRO-VIRASORO MODEL

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• PROJECTIVE GROUP

• GAUGE INVARIANCE

• OPERATORIAL DUALITY

• UNIT INTERCEPT

• NULL STATES

• CRITICAL DIMENSION

• PHYSICAL STATE CONSTRUCTION

• TWISTING OPERATOR

• MULTIREGGEON VERTEX

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• MULTIPLICATIVE INTERNAL SYMMETRY FACTOR

• FACTORISATION OF UNEQUAL INTERCEPTS

• THE RUBBER STRING MODEL

• BARYONS AND EXOTICS

• MORE ON THE RUBBER STRING

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• MULTIPLICATIVE SPIN FACTOR

• FREE FERMIONS (Ramond)

• DUAL PION MODEL (Neveu and Schwarz)

• SPECTRUM

• BOSON-FERMION COUPLINGS

• GENERALISED PROJECTIVE ALGEBRA

• NON-PLANAR EXTENSION

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• METHODS OF ATTACKING THE INTERCEPT PROBLEM

• FOUR-MESON AMPLITUDE; SYMMETRIC GROUP¹³

• REGGE BEHAVIOUR AND ANALYTIC PROPERTIES

• EXPLICIT CONSTRUCTION

• FOUR-PION AMPLITUDE

• POSSIBLE CONNECTION TO THREE-QUARK BARYONS

• MULTIPARTICLE EXTENSION

• CLASSIFICATION OF DUAL RESONANCE MODELS

• MULTIPION AMPLITUDE

• SPIN-LOWERING SYMMETRY

• FACTORISATION

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• BARYON-ANTIBARYON ANNIHILATION

• MESON-NUCLEON SCATTERING

• B₅ PHENOMENOLOGY

• SINGLE-PARTICLE INCLUSIVE SPECTRA

• MANY-PARTICLE INCLUSIVE SPECTRA

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• THE λϕ³ LIMIT

• YANG-MILLS FIELD THEORY

• REGGE SLOPE EXPANSION

• REFERENCES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

• GRAVITATION

• TEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERSYMMETRY

• NON-STRING KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY

• ANOMALY CANCELLATION

• ONE-LOOP FINITENESS; MODULAR INVARIANCE FOR CLOSED STRINGS

• HETEROTIC STRING

• SUPERSTRING PHENOMENOLOGY

• SUMMARY

• REFERENCES

The section consists of reprinted articles in the following topics:

• Explicit Evaluation of Anomalies in Higher Dimensions

• ANOMALY CANCELLATIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC D = 10 GAUGE THEORY AND SUPERSTRING THEORY*

• SUPERSTRINGS FROM 26 DIMENSIONS?

• Heterotic String

The following sections are included:

• INDEX