Superstring Theory (volume 1 of the Advanced Lectures in Mathematics series)

Interest in string theory is driven largely by the hope that it will evolve to be the ultimate “Theory of Everything.” Work on string theory has led to advances in many branches of mathematics. This rapidly developing subject is one of the mainstream topics of mathematics in the 21st century. The current volume presents lectures from the important String Theory International Conference held in 2002 in Hangzhou, China. These include talks given by several mathematicians of particular prominence in the field, among them Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten.

Table of contents

Brane New World (Stephen Hawking)
Gauge Theory and Gravity (Edward Witten)
Easing Into QFT (Edward Witten)
Open String Creation by S-brane (Andrew Strominger)
Duality, Gauging and SuperHiggs Effect in String and M-theory (Sergio Ferrara)
Seiberg Witten Curve for the E-String Theory (Tohru Eguchi, Kazuhiro Sakai)
Strings and Noncommutativity (Louise Dolan, Chiara R. Nappi)
Lectures on Two-loop Superstrings (Eric D Hoker, D.H. Phong)
Seiberg-Witten Theory, Symplectic Forms, and Hamiltonian Theory of Solitons (Eric D Hoker, I. Krichever and D.H. Phong)
Quark Mass Hierarchy and Flavor Mixing in Orbifold Models (Zhi-Zhong Xing)
M-theory on Manifolds with Exceptional Holonomy (S. Gukov)
Stability Conditions and the Braid Group (R. P. Thomas)
Some Remarks on Constant Curvature Spaces (Rong-Gen Cai)
Fourier-Mukai Partners and Mirror Symmetry of K3 Surfaces (Shinobu Hosono)
Counting BPS States via Holomorphic Anomaly Equations (Shinobu Hosono)
Symmetries, Matrices, and de Sitter Gravity (Yi-Hong Gao)
Correspondence Principle in a PP-wave Background (Miao Li)
Support of dS/CFT Correspondence from Spacetime Perturbations (Bin Wang)
Quintessence Cosmology in the Brans-Dicke Theory (Chang-Jun Gao, You-Gen Shen)
Entropy in the NUT-Kerr-Newman Black Holes due to an Arbitrary Spin Field (Xian-Hui Ge, You-Gen Shen)