Unity from Duality
Subtitle: Gravity, Gauge Theory and Strings
Contributors: Costas Bachas (Editor); Adel Bilal (Editor); Michael Douglas (Editor); Nikita Nekrasov (Editor); Francois David (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 12, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9783540002765
Subjects: Astrophysics; Cosmology & the universe; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Physics; Science/Mathematics; Science; Waves & Wave Mechanics; Quantum Theory; Science / Quantum Theory; Astrophysics & Space Science; Mechanics - General
First sentence: Supergravity plays a prominent role in our ideas about the unification of fundamental forces beyond the standard model, in our understanding of many central features of superstring theory, and in recent developments of the conceptual basis of quantum Held theory and quantum gravity.