This is a collection of important papers presented by an international group of outstanding scientists at a seminar on strings and symmetries held in Stony Brook. This volume contains reviews on modern string theory and particle physics, including supersymmetric quantization, supergravity, conformal field theory, topological field theory, string phenomenology, matrix models, and W gravity. This proceedings is both an excellent introduction as well as reference source for researchers.
Sample Chapter(s)
Superstring Compactification and Target Space Duality (265 KB)
Contents:
- Supergravity and String Phenomenology (J H Schwarz, G L Cardoso, B A Ovrul, L Castellani, I Pesando, M Cvetič, B de Wit, M J Duff, J X Lu, S Ferrara, P Fré, I Pesando, M K Gaillard, S J Gates, Jr., S V Ketov, S M Kuzenko, O A Soloviev, D Lüst & H Nishino)
- Black Holes and Quantum Gravity (I Bars, J Distler, P Nelson, G Horowitz, W Kummer, D J Schwarz, A R Steif, A A Tseytlin, A van de Ven & E Witten)
- D = 2 Gravity and Matrix Models (E D'Hoker, E Abdalla, M C B Abdalla, J Gamboa, A Zadra, M J Bowick, S Chaudhuri, A Cooper, L Susskind, L Thorlacius, K de Vos, J-L Gervais, N Ishibashi, H Itoyama, K Li, J L Mañes & G Rivlis)
- Quantization Methods (W Siegel, N Berkovits, D G Caldi, D Z Freedman, R E Kallosh, A Sen, E Sokatchev & A Van Proeyen)
- CFT and Related Topics (P Bouwknegt, J McCarthy, K Pilch, G W Delius, M T Grisaru, D Zanon, J M Figueroa-O'Farrill, S Schrans, D Gepner, M B Halpern, S Hwang, W Lerche, N Warner, V P Nair, P van Driel & W Zhao)
- W-Gravity (C-M Hull, A Mikovic, C N Pope, K Schouterns, A Sevrin & P van Nieuwenhuisen)
- Erratum
Readership: High energy physicists.
