Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXXIV, 664 p)
ISBN:
9783540362456
,
9783540002765
Series Statement:
Les Houches - Ecole d’Ete de Physique Theorique 76
Note:
In a distilled and pedagogical fashion, the contributions to this volume of the famous summer school in Les Houches cover the recent developments in supersymmetric string theory, the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and string duality. Further chapters deal with quantum gravity and D-brane geometry. Black hole mechanics and cosmology are treated too, as well as the AdS-CFT correspondence. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in string/M-theory and quantum gravity. It addresses graduate students in physics and astrophysics
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/3-540-36245-2
URL:
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