Gravity, particle physics and their unification
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We explain the need for a theory of quantum gravity and some general ideas about string theory, including the idea of the derivation of the Hawking Bekenstein entropy formula for extremal black holes. We then give a general description of the correspondence between the large N limit of certain gauge theories and string theory on spacetimes with boundaries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0002092,
title = {Gravity, particle physics and their unification},
author = {Juan Maldacena},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0002092},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
latex, 8 figures. Talk at Lepton-Photon 99. Talk for non-string-theorists