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The Second Superstring Revolution

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Recent developments in superstring theory have led to major advances in understanding. After reviewing where things stood earlier, we sketch the impact of recently identified dualities and D-branes, as well as a hidden eleventh dimension.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607067,
  title  = {The Second Superstring Revolution},
  author = {John H. Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607067},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, latex, 2 figures; Colloquium-level lecture presented at the Sakharov Conference (Moscow, May 1996)