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Recent Progress in Formal Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-10-22 v1

Abstract

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 particle physics and cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.0810.3707,
  title  = {Recent Progress in Formal Theory},
  author = {Joseph Polchinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3707},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages, 1 pdf figure. Summary talk at 34th ICHEP, Philadelphia, August 2008

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