Superstring Dualities, Dirichlet Branes and the Small Scale Structure of Space

Abstract

We give a broad overview of superstring duality, Dirichlet branes, and some implications of both for questions about the structure of space-time at short distances.

To appear in the proceedings of the LXIV Les Houches session on `Quantum Symmetries', August 1995. latex, 29 pp

Cited by in corpus (17)

• Noncommutative Field Theory
• U-duality and M-Theory
• Duality in Integrable Systems and Gauge Theories
• A Non-Renormalization Theorem for the d=1, N=8 Vector Multiplet
• Duality Symmetries and Noncommutative Geometry of String Spacetime
• Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality
• Worldvolume Uncertainty Relations for D-Branes
• D-branes and Azumaya noncommutative geometry: From Polchinski to Grothendieck
• D-branes on Group Manifolds and Deformation Quantization
• D-branes and Azumaya/matrix noncommutative differential geometry, I: D-branes as fundamental objects in string theory and differentiable maps from Azumaya/matrix manifolds with a fundamental module to real manifolds
• Spaces of Quantum Field Theories
• Scattering ripples from branes
• IIB/M Duality and Longitudinal Membranes in M(atrix) Theory
• A mathematical theory of D-string world-sheet instantons, I: Compactness of the stack of $Z$-semistable Fourier-Mukai transforms from a compact family of nodal curves to a projective Calabi-Yau 3-fold
• Black Hole Thermodynamics in Semi-Classical and Superstring Theory
• Black Holes: A Window into A New Theory of Space Time
• From Algebraic Geometry to Machine Learning