Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities
摘要
These lectures begin by reviewing the evidence for S duality of the toroidally compactified heterotic string in 4d that was obtained in the period 1992--94. Next they review recently discovered dualities that relate all five of the 10d superstring theories and a quantum extension of 11d supergravity called M theory. The study of p-branes of various dimensions (some of which are D-branes) plays a central role. The final sections survey supersymmetric string vacua in 6d and some of the dual constructions by which they can be obtained. Special emphasis is given to a class of N=1 models that exhibit ``heterotic-heterotic duality.''
引用
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607201,
title = {Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities},
author = {John H. Schwarz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607201},
year = {2010}
}
备注
67 pages, latex, 1 figure; Lectures given at the ICTP Spring School (March 1996) and the TASI Summer School (June 1996), TASI96