Strings, branes, and gravity : TASI 99 : Boulder, Colorado, USA, 31 May-25 June 1999 / editors, Jeffrey Harvey, Shamit Kachru, Eva Silverstein.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Harvey, Jeffrey.

Kachru, Shamit, 1970-

Silverstein, Eva, 1970-

Conference Name:

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (1999 : Boulder, Colo.)

Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black holes (Astronomy)--Congresses.

Black holes (Astronomy).

Branes--Congresses.

Branes.

Compactifications--Congresses.

Compactifications.

Duality (Nuclear physics)--Congresses.

Duality (Nuclear physics).

Gravity--Congresses.

Gravity.

String models--Congresses.

String models.

Supersymmetry--Congresses.

Supersymmetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (954 p.)

Other Title:

Subtitle on t.p. verso: Lecture notes of TASI 99

TASI 99

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many of the topics in this book are outgrowths of the spectacular new understanding of duality in string theory which emerged around 1995. They include the AdS/CFT correspondence and its relation to holography, the matrix theory formulation of M theory, the structure of black holes in string theory, the structure of D-branes and M-branes, and detailed development of dualities with N = 1 and N = 2 supersymmetry. In addition, there are lectures covering experimental and phenomenological aspects of the Standard Model and its extensions, and discussions on cosmology including both theoretical aspe

Contents:

Foreword; CONTENTS; TASI Lectures on Branes Black Holes and Anti-De Sitter Space; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Supergravity supermembranes and M-theory; 1.2 The Kaluza-Klein idea; 1.3 The field content; 1.4 AdS/CFT correspondence; 1.5 Plan of the lectures; 1.6 Problems 1; 2 ELEVEN DIMENSIONAL SUPERGRAVITY; 2.1 Bosonic field equations; 2.2 AdS4 x S7; 2.3 Consistent truncation to the massless modes; 2.4 The supermembrane solution; 2.5 AdS7 x S4; 2.6 The superfivebrane solution; 2.7 Problems 2; 3 TYPE IIB SUPERGRAVITY; 3.1 Bosonic field equations; 3.2 AdS5 x S5; 3.3 The self-dual superthreebrane solution

3.4 Problems 34 THE M2-BRANE D3-BRANE AND M5-BRANE; 4.1 The M2-brane; 4.2 The M5-brane; 4.3 The D3-brane; 4.4 Problems 4; 5 ADS/CFT: THE MEMBRANE AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE; 5.1 Singletons live on the boundary; 5.2 The membrane as a singleton: the membrane/supergravity bootstrap; 5.3 Doubletons and tripletons revisited; 5.4 The membrane at the end of the universe; 5.5 Near horizon geometry and p-brane aristocracy; 5.6 Supermembranes with fewer supersymmetries. Skew-whiffing; 5.7 The Maldacena conjecture; 5.8 Problems 5; 6 ANTI-DE SITTER BLACK HOLES; 6.1 Introduction

6.2 S5 reduction of Type IIB supergravity6.3 D = 5 AdS black holes; 6.4 Rotating D3-brane; 6.5 S7 reduction of D = 11 supergravity; 6.6 D = 4 AdS black holes; 6.7 Rotating M2-brane; 6.8 S4 reduction of D = 11 supergravity; 6.9 D = 7 AdS black holes; 6.10 Rotating M5-brane; 6.11 Charge as angular momentum; 6.12 Magnetic black holes; 6.13 Kaluza-Klein states as black holes; 6.14 Recent Developments; 6.15 Problems 6; 7 SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS; 7.1 Solutions 1; 7.2 Solutions 2; 7.3 Solutions 3; 7.4 Solutions 4; 7.5 Solutions 5; 7.6 Solutions 6; 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 9 APPENDICES

A The Lagrangian symmetries and transformation rules of D = 11 supergravityB The field equation symmetries and transformation rules of Type IIB supergravity; C The Lagrangian symmetries and transformation rules of the M2-brane; D The field equations symmetries and transformation rules of the M5-brane; E The Lagrangian symmetries and transformation rules of the D3-brane; F D = 4 N = 2 gauged supergravity; D-Brane Primer; 1 Opening Remarks; 2 String Worldsheet Perspective Mostly; 2.1 Classical Point Particles; 2.2 Classical Bosonic Strings; 2.3 Quantised Bosonic Strings; 2.4 Chan-Paton Factors

2.5 The Closed String Partition Function2.6 Unoriented Strings; 2.7 Strings in Curved Backgrounds; 3 Target Spacetime Perspective Mostly; 3.1 T-Duality for Closed Strings; 3.2 The Circle Partition Function; 3.3 Self-Duality and Enhanced Gauge Symmetry; 3.4 T-duality in Background Fields; 3.5 Another Special Radius: Bosonisation; 3.6 String Theory on an Orbifold; 3.7 T-Duality for Open Strings: D-Branes; 3.8 D-Brane Dynamics: Collective Coords and Gauge Theory; 3.9 T-Duality and Orientifolds; 3.10 The D-Brane Tension; 3.11 The Orientifold Tension; 4 Worldvolume Actions I: Dirac-Born-Infield

4.1 Tilted D-Branes

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Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789812799630

981279963X