M-Theory and Quantum Geometry [E-Book] / edited by Lárus Thorlacius, Thordur Jonsson.
The fundamental structure of matter and spacetime at the shortest length scales remains an exciting frontier of basic research in theoretical physics. A unifying theme in this area is the quantization of geometrical objects. The majority of lectures at the Advanced Study Institute on Quantum Ge ome...
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Personal Name(s): | Jonsson, Thordur, editor |
Thorlacius, Lárus, editor | |
Imprint: |
Dordrecht :
Springer,
2000
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Physical Description: |
XVIII, 454 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9789401143035 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-94-011-4303-5 |
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NATO Science Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences ;
556 |
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- 1 D Branes in String Theory, I
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Perturbative String Theory
- 3 Conformal Field Theory Formulation
- 4 T-Duality
- 5 Classical Solutions of The Low-Energy String Effective Action
- 6 Bosonic Boundary State
- 7 Fermionic Boundary State
- 8 Classical Solutions From Boundary State
- 9 Interaction Between a p and a p’ Brane
- 2 Moduli Spaces of Calabi-Yau Compactifications
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A short story about string theory, F-theory and M-theory
- 3 The q = 16 triplet
- 4 The q = 8 triplets
- A Calabi-Yau manifolds
- 3 The M(Atrix) Model of M-Theory
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Matrix theory from the quantized supermembrane
- 3 The BFSS conjecture
- 4 M-theory objects from matrix theory
- 5 Interactions in matrix theory
- 6 Matrix theory in a general background
- 7 Outlook
- 4 The Holographic Principle
- 1 Black Hole Complementarity
- 2 Entropy Bounds
- 3 The AdS/CFT Correspondence and the Holographic Principle
- 4 The Flat Space Limit
- 5 Born-Infeld Actions and D-Brane Physics
- 1 D-Brane Solitons and the Born-Infeld Action
- 2 Born-Infeld Dynamics of Branes in Flat Space
- 3 Branes in Curved Space and the Gauge Theory Connection
- 4 Born-Infeld Analysis of the Baryon Vertex
- 5 Applications of the AdS/CFT Correspondence
- 6 Summary
- 6 Lectures on Superconformal Quantum Mechanics and Multi-Black Hole Moduli Spaces
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Simple Example of Conformal Quantum Mechanics
- 3 Conformally Invariant N-Particle Quantum Mechanics
- 4 Superconformal Quantum Mechanics
- 5 The Quantum Mechanics of a Test Particle in a Reissner-Nordström Background
- 6 Quantum Mechanics on the Black Hole Moduli Space
- 7 Discussion
- A Differential Geometry with Torsion
- 7 Large-N Gauge Theories
- 1 Introduction
- 2 0(N) Vector Models
- 3 Large-N QCD
- 4 QCD in Loop Space
- 5 Large-N Reduction
- 8 Introduction to Random Surfaces
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Random paths
- 3 Branched polymers
- 4 Dynamicaly triangulated surfaces
- 5 Lattice surfaces
- 6 Conclusion
- 9 Lorentzian and Euclidean Quantum Gravity ¡ª Analytical and Numerical Results
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Lorentzian gravity in 2d
- 3 Topology changes and Euclidean quantum gravity
- 4 Euclidean quantum gravity
- 5 Numerical setup
- 6 Dynamically triangulated quantum gravity in d > 2
- 7 Outlook.