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Recent Progress in Formal Theory
Joseph Polchinski
This is a summary talk covering recent progress in perturbative methods for gauge theories and gravity, applications of AdS/CFT duality, vacuum energy, and string theory models of…
The Pomeron and Gauge/String Duality
Richard C. Brower, Joseph Polchinski, Matthew J. Strassler +1
The traditional description of high-energy small-angle scattering in QCD has two components -- a soft Pomeron Regge pole for the tensor glueball, and a hard BFKL Pomeron in leading…
Gauge/gravity duality
Gary T. Horowitz, Joseph Polchinski
We review the emergence of gravity from gauge theory in the context of AdS/CFT duality. We discuss the evidence for the duality, its lessons for gravitational physics, generalizati…
What is String Theory?
Joseph Polchinski
The first part is an introduction to conformal field theory and string perturbation theory. The second part deals with the search for a deeper answer to the question posed in the t…