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hep-th1998★ 67 cited
A Microscopic Liouville Arrow of Time
John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos
We discuss the treatment of quantum-gravitational fluctuations in the space-time background as an `environment', using the formalism for open quantum-mechanical systems, which lead…
hep-th1998★ 15 cited
World-Sheet formulation of M theory
John Ellis, N. E. Mavromatos, D. V. Nanopoulos
We first review the interpretation of world-sheet defects as branes described by a critical theory in 11 dimensions, that we interpret as theory. We then show that -bran…
hep-th1998★ 38 cited
Toward the M(F)--Theory Embedding of Realistic Free-Fermion Models
Per Berglund, John Ellis, Alon E. Faraggi +2
We construct a Landau-Ginzburg model with the same data and symmetries as a orbifold that corresponds to a class of realistic free-fermion models. Within the class…