ISBN: 3-540-66005-4
TITLE: Quantum Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification
AUTHOR: Ceresole, A.; Kounnas, C.; Lst, D.; Theisen, S. (Eds.)
TOC:

Introduction to M Theory and AdS/CFT Duality
John H. Schwarz 1
Interconnections Between Type II Superstrings, M Theory and N = 4 YangMills
Michael B. Green 22
Supermembranes and Super Matrix Models
Bernard de Wit 97
Black Holes, Branes and Superconformal Symmetry
Renata Kallosh 138
Old and New Approaches to NonPerturbative Gauge Dynamics
Eliezer Rabinovici 169
Strings, Matrices and Black Holes
Robbert Dijkgraaf 200
Orbifolds of AdS_3 and Fixpoints of the CFT
Klaus Behrndt 264
Holography and the Weyl Anomaly
Mns Henningson and Kostas Skenderis 271
The QCD String and Generalized Wave Equation
George K. Savvidy 279
On Supergravity Duals of N = 1 SCFT in Four Dimensions
Alexandros Kehagias 293
On (Multi)Center Branes and Exact String Vacua
Konstadinos Sfetsos 303
2D YangMills Theory as a Matrix String Theory
Marco Bill o, Michele Caselle, Alessandro D'Adda, and Paolo Provero 313
Interacting Strings in Matrix String Theory
Giulio Bonelli 323
Graviton Scattering in Matrix Theory and Supergravity
Marco Fabbrichesi 333
The Osp(8|4) Singleton Action from the Super Membrane
Gianguido Dall'Agata, Davide Fabbri, Christophe Fraser, Pietro Fr, Piet Termonia, and Mario Trigiante 339
NonPerturbative Corrections in N = 2 Strings
Andrea Gregori 348
Brane Actions and String Dualities
Eduardo Eyras and Yolanda Lozano 356
On Heterotic/Type I Duality in d = 8
Kristin Frger 365
Near Horizon Supergravity Superspace
Piet Claus 375
On Higher Order alpha' Corrections to Black Brane Geometries
Jacek Paweclzyk and Stefan Theisen 382
D3Brane Dynamics and Black Holes
Matteo Bertolini, Pietro Fr, Roberto Iengo, and Claudio A. Scrucca 388
The M Five Brane on a Torus
David Berman 398
Branes and the WDVV Equation
Jose M. Isidro 406
Action for IIB Supergravity in 10 Dimensions
Gianguido Dall'Agata, Kurt Lechner, and Mario Tonin 416
UDuality and MTheory, an Algebraic Approach
Niels A. Obers and Boris Pioline 424
Supersymmetric 3Cycles for N = 1 Brane Box Models
Andreas Karch, Dieter Lst, and Andr Miemiec 434
Duality in String Cosmology
Ram Brustein 446
Spin Dependent DBrane Interactions and Scattering Amplitudes in Matrix Theory
Jose F. Morales, Jan C. Plefka, Claudio A. Scrucca, Marco Serone, and Andrew K. Waldron 456
Prescriptions for OffShell Bosonic String Amplitudes
Luigi Cappiello, Antonella Liccardo, Raffaele Marotta, Roberto Pettorino, and Franco Pezzella 466
On Wilson Loops and QQPotentials from the AdS/CFT Relation at T = 0
Harald Dorn and HansJrg Otto 475
Topological Strings, Contact Terms and the Holomorphic Anomaly
Carlo Becchi, Stefano Giusto, and Camillo Imbimbo 483
Equivalence of Geometric Engineering and HananyWitten
Douglas J. Smith 493
RamondRamond (Boundary) States
Marco Bill and Roberto Russo 499
An Effective Supergravity for the Thermal Phases of N = 4 Strings
Jean-Pierre Derendinger 509
Universal N = 4 Non-Perturbative Thermal Instabilities; the High-T String Phases
Costas Kounnas 519
Corrections to Macroscopic Supersymmetric BlackHole Entropy
Gabriel Lopes Cardoso 533
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