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Benchmarks on the brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

Branes now occupy center stage in theoretical physics as microscopic components of M-theory, as the higher-dimensional progenitors of black holes and as entire universes in their own right. Their history has been a checkered one, however. Here we list some of the milestones, starting with Dirac's 1962 paper. Asim Barut was an early pioneer.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0407175,
  title  = {Benchmarks on the brane},
  author = {M. J. Duff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0407175},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Asim Barut Memorial Lecture, Bogazici University, Istanbul, October 2002. Added references