Strings and Gravity

Tying The Forces Togehther

Marc Henneaux, Alexander Sevrin

306 pages, parution le 13/03/2003

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Résumé

Since the revolution initiated by Einstein with his formulation of general relativity, the 20th century has witnessed remarkable developments in our understanding of the gravitational interaction. In particular, emergence of string theory as providing a framework, in which both a microscopic description of gravity and a unification of all fundamental forces might be consistently achieved, is probably one of the main theorical landmarks of the physics of the last fifteen years. Its implications have just begun to be uncovered.

This volume collects the contributions that were discussed at the meeting "Strings and Gravity : Tying the Forces Together", which took place in Brussels from October, 19th to October, 21st, 2001. This meeting gathered most of the top experts in this field for active discussions on the state-of-the-art in gravity, gauge and string theory. The contributions range from black holes and cosmological questions (string-inspired cosmological scenarios, dark energy and the fate of our universe, relaxation of the cosmological constant), to exotic low energy physics with large extra dimensions and more theoretical issues ii string theory and quantum gravity (gauge/gravity duality, D-branes, gauge invariance in cosmological spaces, more formal questions related to unitary and symmetry).

Contents

Asymptotic Symmetries of AdS₂ Branes
Algebraic Dreams
Euler Multiplets and Light-Cone Supersymmetry
String Cosmology and Chaos
The Light Cone Open Supermembrane
D-branes in Curved Space
Gauge Invariance With Mass: Higher Spins in Cosmological spaces
On Electric Charge Non-Conservation in Brane World
The Bosonic Ancestor of Closed and Open Fermionic Strings
D-Branes and New Metrics of Special Holonomy
Supernovae and Dark Energy
Instantons and Circular Wilson Loops in Superconformal Yang-Mills Theory
Living With Ghosts
Toward a String Theory of Large-N QCD
Remarks on the Connection Between Trace Anomalies and Holography
From Big Crunch to Big Bang - Is It Possible?
Gravitational Thermodynamics of Schwarzschild de Sitter Space

L'auteur - Marc Henneaux

Marc Henneaux received his doctoral degree in physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (VLB) in 1980. He held successively visiting, postdoctoral and research positions at the Universities of Princeton, Austin (Texas) and at the FNRS (Belgium). He was appointed Professor at the VLB in 1993 and was awarded the Francqui Prize (Belgium) in the year 2000.

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L'auteur - Alexander Sevrin

Alexander Sevrin got his physics degree at tht University of Gent in 1985. In 1988 he obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Leuven. In the following years he held post-doctoral positions at Stonji Brook (New York), Berkeley (California) and CERN (Geneva). In 1994 he was appointed as professor at tht Vrije Universiteit Rrussd (VUB).

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	De Boeck
Auteur(s)	Marc Henneaux, Alexander Sevrin
Parution	13/03/2003
Nb. de pages	306
Format	19,5 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	980g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9782804140946
ISBN13	978-2-8041-4094-6