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Super Field Theories

English · Hardback

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Light-Cone Physics L. Brink.- Supergravity.- Vacuum Stability in Kaluza-Klein Theories.- Lectures on Non-Linear Sigma-Models and Strings.- Torus Compactification of the Bosonic String and their Superstring Content.- Hidden Symmetry of Two-Dimensional Sigma-Model Defined on Symmetric Coset Space K.C Chou.- Representations of the Two-Dimensional Conformal Group.- Recent Developments in the Path Integral Approach to Anomalies.- Representations of Kac-Moody and Virasoro Algebras.- Dimensions, Indices and Congruence Classes of Representations of Affine Kac-Moody Algebras (with examples for affine E8).- Four-Loop Sigma-Model Beta-Functions versus a'3 Corrections to Superstring Effective Actions.- Modular Invariance and Finiteness of Five-Point Closed Superstrings.- Some Topics in Low-Energy Physics from Superstrings.- Yukawa Couplings Between (2,1)-Forms.- The Polyakov Approach and Divergences in Open Superstrings.- On the Evaluation of Superstring Anomalies.- On the Covariant Quantization of Anomalous Gauge Theories.- Quantum Adiabatic Phases and Chiral Gauge Anomalies.- Preregularization and the Ambiguity Structure of the Jacobian for Chiral Symmetry Transformations.- Operator Regularization.- An Analytic Regularization for Supersymmetry Anomalies.- Non-Symmetric Coset Spaces with Torsion - Alternative Compactification of 10-d Superstrings.- Direct Compactification of Heterotic Strings, Modular Invariance and Three Families of Chiral Fermions.- Superstring Compactification on S6 with Torsion.- Superstring Cosmology at Late Times and Time Variation of Fundamental Coupling Constants.- The Ground State of Stringy Gravity.- The Functional Measure in Quantum Field Theory.- Vilkovisky's Unique Effective Action: An Introduction and Explicit Calculation.- Gauge andParametrization Dependence in Kaluza-Klein Theory.- New Algebraic Canonical Structures of Integrability in 2-D Field Theories.- B.R.S. Algebra and Anomalies.- BRST Current Algebra Derivation of the Higher Cocycles.- Superconformal Algebras.- Supermanifolds and Super Riemann Surfaces.- Non-Linear Realization of Heavy Fermions.- Supersymmetry Breaking in R x S3.- Participants.

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Authors V. Elias, G. Kunstatter, H C Lee, R B Mann, K S Viswanathan
Publisher Springer Us
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.1988
 
EAN 9780306426605
ISBN 978-0-306-42660-5
No. of pages 598
Weight 1240 g
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics

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