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Author:   George Thompson (Ictp, Italy) ,  Michael James Duff (Imperial College London, Uk) ,  Ergin Sezgin (Texas A&m Univ, Usa) ,  Christopher N Pope (Texas A&m Univ, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789810237851

ISBN 10:   9810237855
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   22 June 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Supersymmetry effective actions in four dimensions, P.C. Argyres; supermembranes and M(atrix) Theory, H. Nicolai and R. Helling; etudes on D-branes, C.V. Johnson; two lectures on D-geometry and noncommutative geometry, M.R. Douglas; two lectures on AdS/CFT correspondence, M.R. Douglas and S. Randjbar-Daemi; phenomenological aspects of string theory, J. Louis; conformal symmetry on world volumes of branes, P. Claus et al; non-supersymmetric strings, S. Kachru; self-dual tensors in six-dimensional supergravity, F. Riccioni and A. Sagnotti; Euclidean-signature supergravities and dualities, E. Cremmer et al; AdS gravity and field theories at fixpoints, K. Behrndt; superembeddings, P.S. Howe; on some features of the M-5-brane, D. Sorokin; brane dynamics and four-dimensional quantum field theory, N.D. Lambert and P. West; anti-de-Sitter space, branes, singletons, superconformal field theories and all that, M.J. Duff; aspects of the M-5 brane, E. Sezgin and P. Sundell; matrix theory black holes and the cross-Witten transition, L. Susskind; domain walls and the universe, K.S. Stelle; correlation functions of the global E8 symmetry currents in the heterotic 5-brane theory, M. Krogh; on the construction of SL(2,Z) type IIB 5-branes, J.X. Lu and S. Roy; on the (2,0) theory in six dimensions, M. Rozali; the no-ghost theorem and strings on AdS3, J.M. Evans et al; six-dimensional fixed points from Hanany-Witten setups, A. Karch and I. Brunner.

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