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Strings, Gauge Fields and Membranes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v1

Abstract

We present an overview of the intimate relationship between string and D-brane dynamics, and the dynamics of gauge and gravitational fields in three spacetime dimensions. The successes, prospects and open problems in describing both perturbative and nonperturbative aspects of string theory in terms of three-dimensional quantum field theory are highlighted.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405289,
  title  = {Strings, Gauge Fields and Membranes},
  author = {Richard J. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405289},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

53 pages, 8 figures; To be published in the Ian Kogan Memorial Collection ``From Fields to Strings: Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics'', World Scientific, 2004