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Advances in String Theory: The First Sowers Workshop in Theoretical Physics
About this Title
Eric Sharpe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA and Arthur Greenspoon, American Mathematical Society, Ann Arbor, MI, Editors
Publication: AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics
Publication Year:
2008; Volume 44
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4764-0 (print); 978-1-4704-1743-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/amsip/044
MathSciNet review: MR2536565
MSC: Primary 81-06; Secondary 81T30, 83-06, 83E30
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Puff field theory
- Mottness and strong coupling
- Holographic aspects of generalized electric-magnetic dualities
- Null and spacelike singularities and gauge-gravity duality
- Is SUSY natural?
- Brane induced gravity: Codimension-2
- Local bulk operators in AdS/CFT and the fate of the BTZ singularity
- Heterotic geometry and fluxes
- On the spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory
- Resolving black hole microstates
- Geometry of supersymmetric type II solutions
- Resolving gravitational singularities
- Recent developments in heterotic compactifications
- Worldsheet instantons and torsion curves