State of the Unification Address
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
After reviewing how M-theory subsumes string theory, I report on some new and interesting developments, focusing on the ``brane-world'': circumventing no-go theorems for supersymmetric brane-worlds, complementarity of the Maldacena and Randall-Sundrum pictures; self-tuning of the cosmological constant. I conclude with the top ten unsolved problems.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0012249,
title = {State of the Unification Address},
author = {M. J. Duff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0012249},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
16 pages, Latex. Plenary talk delivered at The Division of Particles and Fields Meeting of The American Physical Society, August 9-12 2000, Ohio State University. Minor corrections and references added