Unity from Duality: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings: Les Houches Session LXXVI, July 30 - August 31, 2001

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642055478
• ISBN13: 9783642055478
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"