Les Houches - Ecole d'Ete de Physique Theorique: Les Houches Session LXXVI, July 30 - August 31, 2001

Bachas, Constantin P.; Bilal, Adel; Douglas, Michael R.; Nekrasov, Nikita A.; David, Francois

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2003-01-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783540002765

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36245-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 664