Duality and Supersymmetric Theories

Klappentext Essential reading for all mathematical physicists as a systematic book on this crucial subject. Zusammenfassung This is a systematic introduction to electromagnetic duality and its generalisations. The authors are leading figures in this exciting area of mathematical physics! and their lectures have been organised to describe the fundamental ideas! the developments and some earlier work whose significance has become apparent. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Particle physics and fundamental theory: introduction and guide to Duality and supersymmetric Theories David Olive, and Peter West; 2. Solitons N. S. Manton; 3. Nonlinear electromagnetic self-duality and Legendre transformations Mary K. Gaillard and Bruno Zumino; 4. Supersymmetric s-models in 2 dimensions Bruno Zumino; 5. Introduction to duality David I. Olive; 6. Supersymmetric monopoles and duality Jerome P. Gauntlett; 7. Seiberg-Witten theory and S-duality Tohru Eguchi; 8. Supergravity, Brane dynamics and string duality P. C. West; 9. Supergravity vacua and solitons G. W. Gibbons; 10. An introduction to non-perturbative string theory Ashoke Sen; 11. Lectures on D-branes Constantin Bachas.

Product details

• Authors: David I. (University of Wales Olive
• Assisted by: D. Olive (Editor), David I. Olive (Editor), David I. (University of Wales Olive (Editor), P. West (Editor), Peter C. West (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.1999
• EAN: 9780521641586
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64158-6
• No. of pages: 484
• Series: Publications of the Newton Institute; Publications of the Newton Ins
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries