Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-04-06
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Lectures delivered by D. Lust at Saalburg in September 1998, 58 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
These lectures intend to give a pedagogical introduction into some of the developments in string theory during the last years. They include perturbative T-duality and non perturbative S- and U-dualities, their unavoidable demand for D-branes, an example of enhanced gauge symmetry at fixed points of the T-duality group, a review of classical solitonic solutions in general relativity, gauge theories and tendimensional supergravity, a discussion of their BPS nature, Polchinski's observations that allow to view D-branes as RR charged states in the non perturbative string spectrum, the application of all this to the computation of the black hole entropy and Hawking radiation and finally a brief survey of how everything fits together in M-theory.
Haack Michael
Kors Boris
Lust Dieter
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