Recent Progress in Superstring Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Superstring theory has continued to develop at a rapid clip in the past few years. Following a quick review of some of the major discoveries prior to 1998, this talk focuses on a few of the more recent developments. The topics I have chosen to present are 1) the use of K-theory to classify conserved charges carried by D-branes; 2) tachyon condensation on unstable D-brane systems; and 3) an introduction to noncommutative field theories and their solitons.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0007130,
title = {Recent Progress in Superstring Theory},
author = {John H. Schwarz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0007130},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages; Talk presented at the Conference Quantization, Gauge Theory, and Strings dedicated to the memory of Professor Efim Fradkin and at the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG9)