Future Perspectives in String Theory

Strings '95

Proceedings of the Conference

Strings '95

, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

, 13 – 18 March 1995

https://doi.org/10.1142/2943 | January 1997

Pages: 540

Edited by:
I Bars (University of Southern California, USA),
P Bouwknegt (University of Southern California, USA),
J Minahan (University of Southern California, USA),
D Nemeschansky (University of Southern California, USA),
K Pilch (University of Southern California, USA),
H Saleur (University of Southern California, USA), and
N Warner (University of Southern California, USA)

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The areas covered in this volume include: duality in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories; phenomenological applications of string theory; strings in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; SUSY conformal field theories; QCD strings; aspects of mathematical physics, including: mirror symmetry, W-algebras, representation theory.

Contents:

Curves of Marginal Stability in N = 2 super-QCD (A D Shapere et al.)
Solution of the SL(2,R) String in Curved Spacetime (I Bars)
New Spacetime–Supersymmetric Methods for the Superstring (N Berkovits)
The Equivalence between the Operator Approach and the Path Integral Approach for Quantum Mechanical Nonlinear Sigma Models (P van Nieuwenhuizen et al.)
Operator Algebra of the 4D W3 String (P Bouwknegt et al.)
The Generic Worldsheet Action of Irrational Conformal Field Theory (K Clubok & M B Halpern)
BPS Saturated and Non-Extreme States in Abelian Kaluza–Klein Theory and Effective N = 4 Supersymmetric String Vacua (M Cvetič & D Youm)
Strings in Cosmological Spacetimes and Their Back-Reaction (H J de Vega)
Invariant Effective Actions and Cohomology (E D'Hoker)
Coming to Terms with Strongly Coupled Strings (M Dine)
Boundary Effects in String Theory (M B Green)
Duality, Enhanced Symmetry and "Massless Black Holes" (C M Hull)
Strings, Unification and Dilaton/Moduli-Induced SUSY-Breaking (L E Ibáñez)
Phases of N = 1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electric-Magnetic Triality (K Intriligator & N Seiberg)
Higher-Spin Realizations of the Bosonic String (H Lü et al.)
Refining the Elliptic Genus (D Nemeschansky & N P Warner)
String Theory and Black Hole Complementarity (J Polchinski)
Classical Duality Symmetries in Two Dimensions (J H Schwarz)
Duality Symmetries in String Theories in Dimension ≤ 4 (A Sen)
Closed Strings in Uniform Magnetic Field Backgrounds (A A Tseytlin)
Some Comments on String Dynamics (E Witten)
and other papers

Readership: High energy physicists (strings) and mathematical physicists.

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The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

Preface
Curves of Marginal Stability in N = 2 Super-QCD
Solution of the SL(2, R) String in Curved Spacetime
T-Duality and the Type-II Superstring
New Spacetime–Supersymmetric Methods for the Superstring
Topological Reduction of 4D SYM to 2D σ-Models
The Equivalence between the Operator Approach and the Path Integral Approach for Quantum Mechanical Nonlinear Sigma Models
Operator Algebra of the 4D W₃ String
On the Impossibility of a Large Radius Compactification in Realistic String Theories
Duality and Braids in N = 2 Yang–Mills Theories
Recent Developments in Fermionization and Superstring Model Building
Phases of Mirror Symmetry
The Generic Worldsheet Action of Irrational Conformal Field Theory
BPS Saturated and Non-Extreme States in Abelian Kaluza–Klein Theory and Effective N = 4 Supersymmetric String Vacua
Strings in Cosmological Spacetimes and their Back-Reaction
Invariant Effective Actions and Cohomology
Spacetime Properties of (1, 0) String Vacua
Supertraces in String Theory
Coming to Terms with Strongly Coupled Strings
Gravitational Dressing of Renormalization Group β-Functions
Large N in D > 2
S-Duality and H-Monopoles
The New Physics of Strongly Coupled 2D Gravity
S-Duality in N = 4 Yang–Mills Theories
Boundary Effects in String Theory
Duality, Enhanced Symmetry and “Massless Black Holes”
States in the BRST Cohomology for G/H WZNW Models
Strings, Unification and Dilaton/Moduli-Induced SUSY-Breaking
Phases of N = 1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electric-Magnetic Triality
The Topological Twist and BRST Anti-BRST Gauge Fixing in N = 2 Landau–Ginzburg Models
On N = 4 Strings
Infrared-Regulated String Theory and Loop Corrections to Coupling Constants
On the BRST Cohomology of N = 2 Strings
BPS States, Weight Spaces and Vanishing Cycles
Algebraic and Geometric Structures in String Backgrounds
Four-Dimensional Avatars of Two-Dimensional RCFT
Hot String Soup
Higher-Spin Realizations of the Bosonic String
Towards Mirror Symmetry as Duality for Two-Dimensional Abelian Gauge Theories
Refining the Elliptic Genus
Loop Amplitudes of N = 2 String
Higher Derivative Gravitation in Superstrings
String Theory and Black Hole Complementarity
Probabilities and Path-Integral Realization of Generalized Exclusion Statistics
Duality Beyond Global Symmetries: The Fate of the β_μν Field
Classical Duality Symmetries in Two Dimensions
Duality Symmetries in String Theories in Dimension ≤ 4
Conformal Points of Non-Abelian Thirring Model
Closed Strings in Uniform Magnetic Field Backgrounds
Duality Symmetries and Perturbative Vectormultiplet Couplings in N = 2 Heterotic String Vacua
Some Comments on String Dynamics