Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword (53 KB)
Gauge Theory and Gravity — A New Synthesis (207 KB)
Contents:
- Gauge Theory and Gravity — A New Synthesis (H Ooguri)
- Interconnections Between Type II Superstrings, M Theory and N = 4 Yang–Mills (M B Green)
- AdS3 x S3 (Un)twisted and Squashed, and An O(2,2;9) Multiplet of Dyonic Strings (M Duff et al.)
- Supermembranes in Curved Superspace and Near-Horizon Geometries (B De Wit)
- SO(32) Spinors in Type I String Theory (A Sen)
- Killing Spinors, Supersymmetries and Rotating Intersecting Branes (P K Townsend)
- Holography and the Weyl Anomaly (M Henningson & K Skenderis)
- Black Holes and Super Black Holes as Chern–Simons Theories in 2+1 Dimensions (S Fernando & F Mansouri)
- Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics (R Kallosh)
- Multi-Graviton Scattering in Matrix Theory (G Ferretti)
- M-Theory Graviton Scattering in a Curved Background (U H Danielsson)
- Higher Spin N = 8 Supergravity in AdS4 (E Sezgin & P Sundell)
- M(ysterious) SO(9) Triality (P Ramond)
- Comments on String Theory Scales and the Desert Hypothesis (C P Bachas)
- The Power of Extra Dimensions (K Dienes et al.)
- Some Aspects of Noncommutative Geometry and Physics (A Dimakis & F Müller-Hoissen)
- Chern–Simons Field Theories in the Coulomb Gauge (F Ferrari & I Lazzizzera)
Readership: High energy physicists.
