β Scribed by Ofer Aharony (auth.), Laurent Baulieu, Eliezer Rabinovici, Jeff Harvey, Boris Pioline, Paul Windey (eds.)
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The NATO Advanced Study Institute and EC Summer School "Progress in String Field and Particle Theory" was held in Cargse from June 25th till July 11th 2002. The main focus of the school was the recent progress in the very acΒ tive areas of superstring theory, quantum gravity and the theory of elementary particles. It covered topical problems in domains such as duality between gravity and gaugeinteractions, string field theory, tachyon condensation, non-commutative field theory, string cosmology and string phenomenology. The School featured daily introductory lectures and topical seminars. An informal Gong Show session allowed young post-doctoral researchers and senior graduate students to make a concise presentation oftheir current work. The School gave an excellent opportunity to the youngest researchers to establish a close relationship with their seniors and with the lecturers. These proceedings will further serve in fixing the acquired knowledge, and hopefully, become a useful reference for anyone working in this fascinating doΒ main of physics. Some of the contributions provide an elementary introduction to their subject, while other ones are more geared to the specialist. We are deeply indebted to the NATO Division for Scientific Affairs for funding, and for their constant attention for our meetings, and to the European Commission for a High-Level Scientific Conference grant HPCFCT 2001-00298.
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Non-Ads/Non-CFT Correspondence, Or Three Different Paths To Qcd....Pages 3-24
Physics Of Low Scale String Models....Pages 25-74
The Holographic Principle....Pages 75-166
Two Talks On A Tentative Theory Of Large Distance Physics....Pages 167-188
D-Branes On The Conifold And N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities....Pages 189-223
Defects, Decay, And Dissipated States....Pages 225-262
Seiberg-Witten Prepotential, Higher Casimirs, And Free Fermions....Pages 263-274
Aspects Of String Motion In Time-Dependent Backgrounds....Pages 275-318
On The Geometry Of Higher-Spin Gauge Fields....Pages 319-334
Open String Creation By S-Branes....Pages 335-344
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Superconformal Boundary Conditions Of The N=1 Nonlinear Sigma Model....Pages 347-350
Backgrounds Of 2D String Theory From Matrix Models....Pages 351-355
The D3β΄D1-Brane Intersection and Monopole Scattering....Pages 357-360
Holography And Infrared Conformality In Two Dimensions....Pages 361-364
Stabilization Of D-Branes In General Group Manifolds....Pages 365-368
Orientifolds And K-Theory....Pages 369-372
A Resolution Of The Cosmological Singularity With Orientifolds....Pages 373-376
D-Branes And Orientifolds Of s 3 And rp 3 ....Pages 377-379
Boundary States In Rational Cft....Pages 381-384
Quasilocalization In Brane World Models And On D-Branes....Pages 385-388
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
S-Charge Monodromy Mechanism In N=2 Sym From Semiclassical Point Of View....Pages 389-392
Singular And Smooth Time-Dependent Orbifolds....Pages 393-396
Type Iib 7-Brane Solutions From Nine-Dimensional Domain Walls....Pages 397-400
Ξ±β²-Corrections To Flux Induced Potentials In Type Iib....Pages 401-404
Noncommutative Multi-Solitons....Pages 405-407
Symmetries In M Theory: Monsters, Inc.....Pages 409-412
Spacetime Diffeomorphisms And The Geodesic Approximation....Pages 413-416
Gepner Model Boundary States From Geometry....Pages 417-420
Instanton Expansions In 5D N = 2 Prepotentials....Pages 421-424
Yang-Mills Theory From String Field Theory On D-Branes....Pages 425-428
Magnetized Type I Orbifolds In Four Dimensions....Pages 429-432
De Sitter Space In Non-Critical String Theory....Pages 433-436
Ribbon Graphs And Surfaces....Pages 437-440
A Mysterious Duality: M-Theory And Del Pezzo Surfaces....Pages 441-444
Super Yang-Mills Matrix Integrals For An Arbitrary Gauge Group....Pages 445-448
On Ads 3 String Theory....Pages 449-452
Cubic Free Field Theory....Pages 453-456
On The Covariant Quantization Of Superstrings....Pages 457-460
Open Strings And 3D Topological Field Theory....Pages 461-464
Observer Complementarity In De Sitter Space....Pages 465-468
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Remarks On Surface States And Derivations In String Field Theory....Pages 469-472
Multiple Trace Deformations, Boundary Conditions And Ads/Cft....Pages 473-476
Moduli Stabilization From Fluxes....Pages 477-480
Time Dependent Background From Nonsupersymmetric Strings....Pages 481-484
The Ns Five-Brane Partition Sum....Pages 485-488
Gravitational Approach To Tachyon Matter....Pages 489-492
D-Branes From N=2 Sigma Models....Pages 493-497
Back Matter....Pages 499-509
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