The world in eleven dimensions supergravity, supermembranes and M-theory
A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York :
CRC Press
2018.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Series in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009624650306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERGRAVITY
- Introduction
- Supersymmetries and their representations
- Nahm 1978
- Supergravity theory in eleven-dimensions
- Cremmer, Julia, and Scherk 1978
- Search for a realistic Kaluza-Klein theory
- Witten 1981
- N8 supergravity breaks down to N1
- Awada, Duff, and Pope 1983
- Compactification of D11 supergravity on K3? T3
- Duff, Nilsson, and Pope 1983
- Exact pp-wave solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity
- Hull 1984
- N4 remaining supersymmetry in Kaluza-Klein monopole background in D11 supergravity
- Han and Koh 1985
- THE ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERMEMBRANE
- Introduction
- Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity
- Bergshoeff, Sezgin and Townsend 1987
- On the quantum mechanics of supermembranes
- de Wit, Hoppe, and Nicolai 1988
- Multimembrane solutions of d11 supergravity
- Duff and Stelle 1991
- Open p-branes
- Strominger 1996
- D-branes from M-branes
- Townsend 1996
- THE ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERFIVEBRANE
- Introduction
- Black p-brane solutions of d11 supergravity theory
- Gueven 1992
- Eleven-dimensional origin of string/string duality: a one loop test
- Duff, Liu, and Minasian 1995
- One loop in eleven dimensions
- Green, Gutperle, and Vanhove 1997
- Five-branes and M-theory on an orbifold
- Witten 1996
- Covariant field equations of the M-theory fivebrane
- Howe, Sezgin, and West 1997
- M-THEORY (BEFORE M-THEORY WAS COOL)
- Introduction
- Superstrings in d10 from supermembranes in d11
- Duff, Howe, Inami, and Stelle 1987
- Duality rotations in membrane theory
- Duff and Lu 1990
- Unity of superstring dualities
- Hull and Townsend 1995
- The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited
- Townsend 1995
- INTERSECTING BRANES AND BLACK HOLES
- Introduction
- Intersecting M-branes
- Papadopoulos and Townsend 1996
- Harmonic superpositions of M-branes
- Tseytlin 1996
- The black branes of M-theory
- Duff, Lu, and Pope 1996
- Intersecting M-branes as four-dimensional black holes
- Klebanov and Tseytlin 1996
- M-THEORY AND DUALITY
- Introduction
- String theory dynamics in various dimensions
- Witten 1995
- P-brane democracy
- Townsend 1996
- The power of M-theory
- Schwarz 1996
- Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions
- Horava and Witten 1996
- M-theory: the theory formerly known as strings
- Duff 1996
- M-theory as a matrix model: a conjecture
- Banks, Fischler, Shenker, and Susskind 1997
- Solutions of four-dimensional field theories via M-theory
- Witten 1997
- The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
- Maldacena 1998.
