Understanding fields using strings: A review |
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Authors: | Sunil Mukhi |
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Institution: | (1) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, 400 005 Mumbai, India |
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Abstract: | In addition to being a prime candidate for a fundamental unified theory of all interactions in nature, string theory provides
a natural setting to understand gauge field theories. This is linked to the concept of ‘D-branes’: extended, solitonic excitations of string theory which can be studied using techniques of string theory and which
support gauge fields localized along their world-volumes. It follows that the techniques of string theory can be very useful
even for those particle physicists who are not specifically interested in unification and/or quantum gravity. In this talk
I attempt to review how strings help us to understand fields. The discussion is restricted to 3+1 spacetime dimensions. |
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Keywords: | Fields strings supersymmetry |
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