From Superstrings to Supergravity

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• String Solutions and Duality

  • Two-Dimensional Conformal Sigma Models and Exact String Solutions

  • Abelian and Non-Abelian Dualities in String Backgrounds

  • Construction of String Solutions Around Non-Trivial Backgrounds

  • Instantons, Monopoles, Strings and Fivebranes

  • Four-Dimensional String/String Duality

• Topological Gravity

  • Chiral Rings in Topological (W-)Gravity

  • Topological Gravity as Twisted N = 2 Supergravity

• New String Theories

  • Fractional Superstring Tree Scattering Amplitudes

  • The Zero Tension Limit of Strings and Superstrings

  • Anomaly Cancellations and Open-String Theories

  • Conformal Field Theories with One Primary Field

• Cosmology

  • Ordinary and Dilatonic Domain Walls: Solutions and Induced Space–Times

  • Anomalously Simple Supergravity Inflation

  • A Natural Mechanism for Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Cosmological Constant

• String Effective Actions

  • String Loop Corrections to Gauge and Yukawa Couplings

  • Local and Global Properties of Moduli Space from Picard–Fuchs Equations

  • Classical Effects from High Energy Superstring Collisions

• String Phenomenology

  • Supersymmetric Unification

  • Operator Analysis for the Flavor Sector of SO(10) Theories

  • Model-Independent Analysis of Soft Terms in Effective Supergravity and in String Theory

  • Consistency and Phenomenology of Four-Dimensional Strings

  • Supersymmetric Standard Model with Heavy Chiral Multiplets, Anomalies and Wess–Zumino Terms

  • SU(5)×U(1): A String Paradigm of a TOE and Its Experimental Consequences