Quantum String Theory

Proceedings of the Second Yukawa Memorial Symposium, Nishinomiya, Japan, October 23–24, 1987

Noboru Kawamoto, Taichiro Kugo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 147 Seiten

2012 | 1988
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-46655-7 (ISBN)

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String theories seem to have created a breakthrough in theoretical physics. At long last a unfied theory of all the fundamental interactions, including gravity, looks possible. This, according to theorist Stephen Hawking, will mark the end of theoretical physics as we have known it, since we will then have a single consistent theory within which to explain all natural phenomena from elementary particles to galactic superclusters. Strings themselves are extremely tiny entities, smaller than the Planck scale, which form loops whose vibrational harmonics can be used to model all the standard elementary particles. Of course the mathematical complexities of the theory are daunting, and physicists are still at a very early stage in understanding how strings and their theoretical cousins superstrings can be used. This proceedings volume gives an overview of the intense recent work in the field and reports latest developments.

I String Theories: General Aspects.- Uniqueness of Superstrings.- String Theory and Quantum Gravity.- II String Field Theories.- Construction of Witten's String Field Theory.- Gauge String Field Theory.- III Loop Corrections and Conformai Field Theory.- String Multi-loop Corrections to Equations of Motion.- Differential Equations for Conformai Characters in Moduli Space.- IV Further Mathematical Developments.- Analytic Fields on Riemann Surfaces.- On the Connection Between Zamolodchikov's W-Algebras and Kac-Moody Algebras.- V Related Topics.- Some Remarks on Random Dynamics.- Index of Contributors.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2012
Zusatzinfo	IX, 147 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	294 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	3-642-46655-9 / 3642466559
ISBN-13	978-3-642-46655-7 / 9783642466557
Zustand	Neuware