Introduction to M Theory

Abstract

This is an introduction to some recent developments in string theory and M theory. We try to concentrate on the main physical aspects, and often leave more technical details to the original literature.

76 pages, harvmac. v2: A few typos corrected, a reference added

References in corpus (28)

• M Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture
• Wilson loops in large N field theories
• String Solitons
• Massless Black Holes and Conifolds in String Theory
• Evidence for Heterotic - Type I String Duality
• Matrix String Theory
• A Correspondence Principle for Black Holes and Strings
• The Holographic Bound in Anti-de Sitter Space
• Duality in the Type--II Superstring Effective Action
• Entropy and Temperature of Black 3-Branes
• Matrix Description of M-theory on $T^5$ and $T^5/Z_2$
• String Theory and Classical Absorption by Threebranes
• Boundary States of D-Branes and Dy-Strings
• Matrix Description of M-theory on $T^4$ and $T^5$
• Duality Symmetries of 4D Heterotic Strings
• Some Relationships Between Dualities in String Theory
• Black Holes in String Theory
• Proposals on nonperturbative superstring interactions
• STRING STRING DUALITY CONJECTURE IN SIX DIMENSIONS AND CHARGED SOLITONIC STRINGS
• D-particle Dynamics and Bound States
• Conformal Field Theory Correlators from Classical Scalar Field Theory on $Ad{S}_{d+1}$
• Matrix Theory
• Constraints From Extended Supersymmetry in Quantum Mechanics
• Space-Time Uncertainty Principle and Conformal Symmetry in D-Particle Dynamics
• Classical Symmetries of Some Two-Dimensional Models
• Quantum Metamorphosis of Conformal Transformation in D3-Brane Yang-Mills Theory
• Matrix Description of M-theory on $T^6$
• Matrix Schwarzschild Black Holes in Large N limit

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Variations of Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci Equations in Kaluza-Klein Reduction (String Theory) and Cauchy Problem (General Relativity)