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Introduction to Cosmic F- and D-Strings
Joseph Polchinski
In these lectures I discuss the possibility that superstrings of cosmic length might exist and be observable. I first review the original idea of cosmic strings arising as gauge th…
AdS Holography in the Penrose Limit
Nelia Mann, Joseph Polchinski
We study the holographic description of string theory in a plane wave spacetime by taking the Penrose limit of the usual AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider three-point functions w…
M Theory: Uncertainty and Unification
Joseph Polchinski
I review our current understanding of the Worldformula, M theory, focusing on themes from the work of Heisenberg.
The Quantum Hall Effect on R^4
Henriette Elvang, Joseph Polchinski
Zhang and Hu have formulated an SU(2) quantum Hall system on the four-sphere, with interesting three-dimensional boundary dynamics including gapless states of nonzero helicity. In…
String Theory and the Size of Hadrons
Joseph Polchinski, Leonard Susskind
We begin by outlining the ancient puzzle of off shell currents and infinite size particles in a string theory of hadrons. We then consider the problem from the modern AdS/CFT persp…
The String Dual of a Confining Four-Dimensional Gauge Theory
Joseph Polchinski, Matthew J. Strassler
We study N=1 gauge theories obtained by adding finite mass terms to N=4 Yang-Mills theory. The Maldacena dual is nonsingular: in each of the many vacua, there is an extended brane…