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