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9780521103084

Duality and Supersymmetric Theories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521103084

  • ISBN10:

    0521103088

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is the first systematic introduction to electromagnetic duality and its generalizations. The authors, leading figures in this exciting new area of mathematical physics, describe the fundamental ideas, latest developments, and some earlier work whose significance has only recently become apparent. This volume will be essential reading for all those working in mathematical physics.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Particle physics and fundamental theory: introduction and guide to Duality and supersymmetric Theories
Solitons
Nonlinear electromagnetic self-duality and Legendre transformations
Supersymmetric s-models in 2 dimensions
Introduction to duality
Supersymmetric monopoles and duality
Seiberg-Witten theory and S-duality
Supergravity, Brane dynamics and string duality
Supergravity vacua and solitons
An introduction to non-perturbative string theory
Lectures on D-branes
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