Novelties In String Theory – Proceedings Of The Johns Hopkins Workshop On Current Problems In Particle Theory 22 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

Contents:

• Gauge Theory and Gravity — A New Synthesis (H Ooguri)
• Interconnections Between Type II Superstrings, M Theory and N = 4 Yang–Mills (M B Green)
• AdS₃ x S³ (Un)twisted and Squashed, and An O(2,2;9) Multiplet of Dyonic Strings (M Duff et al.)
• Supermembranes in Curved Superspace and Near-Horizon Geometries (B De Wit)
• SO(32) Spinors in Type I String Theory (A Sen)
• Killing Spinors, Supersymmetries and Rotating Intersecting Branes (P K Townsend)
• Holography and the Weyl Anomaly (M Henningson & K Skenderis)
• Black Holes and Super Black Holes as Chern–Simons Theories in 2+1 Dimensions (S Fernando & F Mansouri)
• Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics (R Kallosh)
• Multi-Graviton Scattering in Matrix Theory (G Ferretti)
• M-Theory Graviton Scattering in a Curved Background (U H Danielsson)
• Higher Spin N = 8 Supergravity in AdS4 (E Sezgin & P Sundell)
• M(ysterious) SO(9) Triality (P Ramond)
• Comments on String Theory Scales and the Desert Hypothesis (C P Bachas)
• The Power of Extra Dimensions (K Dienes et al.)
• Some Aspects of Noncommutative Geometry and Physics (A Dimakis & F Müller-Hoissen)
• Chern–Simons Field Theories in the Coulomb Gauge (F Ferrari & I Lazzizzera)

Readership: High energy physicists.