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String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years

Popular Physics 2015-05-30 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

This article provides some historical background and then reviews developments in string theory over the last twenty-five years or so. Both perturbative and non-perturbative approaches to string theory are surveyed and their impact on how we view quantum gravity is analysed.

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@article{arxiv.1110.2569,
  title  = {String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years},
  author = {Sunil Mukhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.2569},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

44 pages, invited review published in Classical and Quantum Gravity; references added

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