Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-02-12
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
42 pages,uses phyzzx, LPTHE-PAR 92/50 (ERICE lectures)
Scientific paper
Progress on the physics of strings in curved spacetime are comprehensively reviewed.We start by showing through renormalization group arguments that a meaningful quantum theory of gravity must be finite and must include all particle physics.Then, we review classical and quantum string propagation in curved spacetimes.We start by the general expansion method proposed by de Vega and S\'anchez in 1987. The particle transmutation phenomena in asymptotically flat spacetimes are detailed including fermion-boson transitions in supergravity backgrounds.The next chapters review the exactly solvable cases of string propagation: shock waves, singular plane waves, conical spacetimes and de Sitter cosmological spacetime. The calculation of various physical quantities like the string mass and the energy-momentum tensor shows that classical and quantum string propagation in shock-waves and singular plane waves is physically meaningful and full of interesting new phenomena.The important phenomenom of {\bf string stretching} that takes place when strings fall into spacetime singularities and in expanding universes is analyzed.We conclude by reporting on strings in de Sitter spacetime, where the string equations are integrable and reduce to the sinh-Gordon equation and to integrable generalizations of it. Lectures delivered at the ERICE SCHOOL ``STRING QUANTUM GRAVITY AND PHYSICS AT THE PLANCK ENERGY SCALE'', 21-28 June 1992 , to appear in the Proceedings edited by N. S\'anchez, World Scientific.
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