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Topics in M-Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We give a brief history of the passage from strings to branes and we review some aspects of the following topics in M-theory: (a) an extended brane scan, (b) superembedding approach to the dynamics of superbranes and (c) supermembranes in anti de Sitter space, singletons and massless higher spin field theories.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9809204,
  title  = {Topics in M-Theory},
  author = {E. Sezgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9809204},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

51 pages, latex, 2 figure files, uses sprocl.sty, contribution to the Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting, 19-22 Nov 1997, Trieste, Italy, a paragraph with new references added