Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities
arXiv:hep-th/9607201 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00070-4
Abstract
These lectures begin by reviewing the evidence for S duality of the toroidally compactified heterotic string in 4d that was obtained in the period 1992--94. Next they review recently discovered dualities that relate all five of the 10d superstring theories and a quantum extension of 11d supergravity called M theory. The study of p-branes of various dimensions (some of which are D-branes) plays a central role. The final sections survey supersymmetric string vacua in 6d and some of the dual constructions by which they can be obtained. Special emphasis is given to a class of N=1 models that exhibit ``heterotic-heterotic duality.''
67 pages, latex, 1 figure; Lectures given at the ICTP Spring School (March 1996) and the TASI Summer School (June 1996), TASI96
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