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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (513 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Series in high energy physics, cosmology and gravitation |
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Series in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose vibrational modes represent the elementary particles. Superstrings provided a perturbative finite theory of gravity which, after compactification to four spacetime dimensions, seemed in principle capable of explaining the Standard Model. Despite these major successes, however, nagging doubts persisted about superstrings. Then in 1987 and 1992 the elementary supermembrane and its dual partner, the solitonic superfivebrane, were discovered. These are supersymmetric extended objects with respectively two and five dimensions moving in an eleven-dimensional spacetime. Over the period since 1996, perturbative superstrings have been superseded by a new nonperturbative called M-theory, which describes supermembranes and superfivebranes, subsumes string theories, and has as its low-energy limit, eleven-dimensional supergravity. M-theory represents the most exciting development in the subject since 1984 when the superstring revolution first burst on the scene. The first book devoted to M-theory, The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-Theory brings together seminal papers that have shaped our current understanding of this eleven-dimensional world, from supergravity through supermembranes to M-theory. Each chapter includes commentaries intended to explain the importance of these papers and to place them in a wider perspective. Each chapter also has an extensive bibliography. The book is of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in particle physics, mathematical physics, gravitation, and cosmology. |
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Supergravitation.
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Supergravity.
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Supermembran.
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Superstring theories.
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Supersymmetry.
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Unified field theories.
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Wechselwirkung.
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SCIENCE -- Physics.
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SCIENCE / Nuclear Physics.
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SCIENCE / Physics.
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Supergravity. (OCoLC)fst01138881
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Superstring theories. (OCoLC)fst01139037
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Supersymmetry. (OCoLC)fst01139038
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Unified field theories. (OCoLC)fst01161331
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780750306720 |
| ISBN |
9781482268737 (electronic book ; PDF) |
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9780429176142 (electronic book) |
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0429176147 (electronic book) |
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