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COLLOQUIA/
SEMIPOPULAR Back
to Top
 hep-th/0209105:
M Theory: Uncertainty and Unification. Joseph Polchinski (10
pages, 1 familiar figure. Presented at the Heisenberg Centennial Symposium,
Munich, Dec. 6-7, 2001).
hep-th/0111237:
The world in eleven dimensions: a tribute to Oskar Klein M.
J. Duff (38 pages, 15 color figures; Oskar Klein Professorship Inaugural
Lecture, University of Michigan).
hep-th/0107263:
String Theory, Large Dimensions and Supersymmetry. Michael
Dine ( 9 pages; talk presented at 30 Years of Supersymmetry, Minneapolis,
October, 2000).
hep-th/0007130
: Recent Progress in Superstring Theory. John H. Schwarz (13
pages; Talk presented at the Conference Quantization, Gauge Theory,
and Strings dedicated to the memory of Professor Efim Fradkin and
at the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting).
hep-lat/0011073:
Recent Developments in Superstring Theory. Ashoke Sen (Lattice
2000 talk, 14 pages), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 94 (2001) 35-48.
hep-th/9812104:
Quantum Gravity at the Planck Length. Joseph Polchinski (33
pages, 11 figures), Int.J.Mod.Phys. A14 (1999) 2633-2658.
hep-th/9812037:
Introduction to M Theory and AdS/CFT Duality. John H. Schwarz
(26 pages; To be published in the Proceedings of a conference held
in Corfu, Greece in September 1998).
hep-ph/0201222:
Four Big Questions with Pretty Good Answers. Frank Wilczek
(19 pages; talk given at a Symposium in Honor of Heisenberg's 100th
birthday, December 6, 2001, Munich).
hep-ph/9810356:
Developments in Superstring Theory. Ashoke Sen (11 pages; ICHEP98
proceedings).
hep-th/9807195:
Beyond Gauge Theories. John H. Schwarz (14 pages; Presented
at WEIN 98 in Santa Fe, June 1998).
hep-th/9807135:
From Superstrings to M Theory. John H. Schwarz (21 pages),
Phys.Rept. 315 (1999). 107-121.
hep-th/9805177:
A Layman's Guide to M-theory. M. J. Duff (32 pages) .
hep-th/9803179:
String Theory, Supersymmetry, Unification, and All That. John
H. Schwarz, Nathan Seiberg (21 pages, 5 figure), Rev.Mod.Phys. 71
(1999) S112-S120.
gr-qc/9803065:
Quantum Gravity/String/M-theory/ as we approach the 3rd Millennium.
G W Gibbons (22 pages, 2 figures; Plenary lecture, aimed at a non-expert
audience, given at GR15, Pune, India, December 1997).
hep-th/9708164:
Duality, Strings and Supergravity: a Status Report. Sergio
Ferrara (12 pages; Plenary Talk given at the XII International Congress
of Mathematical Physics, 13-19 July 1997, Brisbane, Australia).
hep-th/9711029:
The Status of String Theory. John H. Schwarz (16 pages, two figures).
hep-th/9710246:
Recent Developments in String Theory. W. Lerche (16 p, 12 figs,
Contribution to the Proceedings of Lepton-Photon 97).
hep-th/9607067:
The Second Superstring Revolution. John H. Schwarz (8 pages,
2 figures; Colloquium-level lecture presented at the Sakharov Conference,
Moscow, May 1996).
hep-th/9607050:
String Duality--A Colloquium. Joseph Polchinski (41 pages, 7 figures),
Rev.Mod.Phys. 68 (1996) 1245-1258.
hep-th/9511157:
Recent Results in String Duality. Joseph Polchinski (11 pages),
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl. 123 (1996) 9-18.
hep-th/9506077:
The Power of Duality -- Exact Results in 4D SUSY Field Theory.
Nathan Seiberg (15 pages, to appear in the Proc. of PASCOS 95 and
in the Proc. of the Oskar Klein lectures ), Int.J.Mod.Phys. A16 (2001)
4365-4376.
hep-th/0107059:
Anomaly Cancellation: A Retrospective From a Modern Perspective.
John H. Schwarz (11 pages, Talk presented at ``2001: A Spacetime Odyssey''
-- the inaugural conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical
Physics).
hep-th/0007118:
String Theory: The Early Years. John H. Schwarz (10 pages;
Presented at Symposium for L. Susskind's 60th Birthday).
hep-th/0011078:
String Theory Origins of Supersymmetry. John H. Schwarz (14
pages; Presented at the conference ``30 Years of Supersymmetry''),
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 101 (2001) 54-61.
PERTURBATIVE
STRING THEORY Back
to Top
hep-th/9612254:
TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theories. Hirosi Ooguri,
Zheng Yin (80 pages, Proceedings of TASI96).
hep-th/9411028:
What is String Theory? Joseph Polchinski (153 pages, 30 figures.
Lectures presented at the 1994 Les Houches Summer School ``Fluctuating
Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory.'')
hep-th/0209059:
ICTP Lectures on Covariant Quantization of the Superstring. Nathan
Berkovits (43 pages).
hep-th/0204089:
Open Strings. Carlo Angelantonj, Augusto Sagnotti (156 pages;
review article, to appear in Physics Reports).
hep-th/0201209:
TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theory and Ramond-Ramond Flux.
L. Dolan (39 pages, TASI 2001, June 3-29, 2001).
hep-th/9910156:
An Introduction to Conformal Field Theory. Matthias R Gaberdiel
(69 pages), Rept.Prog.Phys. 63 (2000) 607-667.
hep-th/9304011:
Lectures on 2D gravity and 2D string theory. P. Ginsparg,
Gregory Moore (230 pages, 42 figures;TASI 1992).
hep-th/9112030:
Supersymmetric String Solitons. C.G.Callan Jr., J.A.Harvey,
A.E.Strominger (42 half pages; lectures given by C. Callan and J.
Harvey at the 1991 Trieste Spring School on String Theory and Quantum
Gravity)
hep-th/9109052:
Instantons and Solitons in Heterotic String Theory. Curtis
G. Callan, Jr. (24 pages; lectures given at the Sixth Jorge Andre
Swieca Summer School in Theoretical Physics).
OVERALL
INTRODUCTIONS Back
to Top
hep-th/9709062:
Introduction to Superstring Theory. E. Kiritsis (244 pages, 22
figures, to be published in book form by Leuven University Press).
hep-th/9802051:
An Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory. Ashoke Sen
(129 pages, 22 figures, Lectures given at Isaac Newton Institute and
DAMTP, Cambridge).
hep-ex/0008017:
Introduction to Superstring Theory. John H. Schwarz (44 pages;
Lectures presented at the St. Croix NATO Advanced Study Institute
on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics).
hep-th/0110055:
Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions. Stefan Forste ( 238 pages).
hep-th/0210224:
String theory: an update. Jan de Boer (20 pages, 2 figures;
plenary talk at ICHEP'02, Amsterdam, July 24-31, 2002).
gr-qc/0205036:
Introduction to M-theory for relativists and cosmologists. Nobuyoshi
Ohta (28 pages, 7 figures; lectures at the international workshop
``Brane world'' at YITP, 15--18 January 2002, to be published in Prog.
Theor. Phys. Suppl.)
hep-th/0010046:
Topics on Strings, Branes and Calabi-Yau Compactifications.
Hugo Garcia-Compean, Oscar Loaiza-Brito (50 pages, no figures).
hep-th/0003019:
Lectures on Strings, D-branes and Gauge Theories. Hugo Garcia-Compean,
Oscar Loaiza-Brito (38 pages, no figures).
hep-th/9906108:
An introduction to perturbative and non-perturbative string theory.
Ignatios Antoniadis, Guillaume Ovarlez (17 pages; Lectures given at
``Flavour and Gauge Hierarchies'', Cargese, France, 20 Jul.-1 Aug.
1998, and at ``Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics'',
Kerkyra, Greece, 6-20 Sep. 1998).
hep-th/9811101:
Supergravity, Brane Dynamics and String Duality. P. West (109
pages, 2 figures).
hep-th/9811019:
Introduction to M Theory. Miao Li (76 pages).
hep-th/9810240:
String Primer. E. Alvarez, P. Meessen (87 pages, 4 figures),
JHEP 02 (1999) 015.
hep-th/9702201:
Lectures on Strings and Dualities. Cumrun Vafa (53 pages).
hep-th/9711102:
Fields, Strings and Branes. C. Gomez, R. Hernandez (176 pages,
6 figures).
hep-th/9703136:
Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality. R. Dijkgraaf
(152 pages, 31 figures)
AdS/CFT Back
to Top
hep-th/9905111:
Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity. O. Aharony,
S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz ( 261 pages, 42 post-script
figures), Phys.Rept. 323 (2000) 183-386.
hep-th/0009139:
TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence.
Igor R. Klebanov (36 pages; Lectures at TASI '99, Boulder, June 1999).
hep-th/0003032:
What does the string/gauge correspondence teach us about Wilson
loops? Jacob Sonnenschein (47 pages, 13 figs; Lectures presented
at Santiago de Compostela-99).
hep-th/0205100:
D-Branes on the Conifold and N=1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities. Christopher
P. Herzog, Igor R. Klebanov, Peter Ouyang (40 pages; based on I.R.K.'s
lectures at the Les Houches Summer School Session 76, ``Gravity, Gauge
Theories, and Strings'', August 2001).
hep-th/0202156:
Wilson loops in SYM theory: from weak to strong coupling. Gordon
W. Semenoff, K. Zarembo (32 pages, 5 figures; compiled from presentations
at, among others, Sapporo Winter School, January, 2002; APCTP/KIAS
Winter School, December 2001; 14th Nordic Network Meeting, Stockholm,
November 2001; Tohwa Symposium, July, 2001.
hep-th/0201253:
Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence.
Eric D'Hoker, Daniel Z. Freedman (145 pages; 14 figures).
hep-th/0209067:
Lecture Notes on Holographic Renormalization. Kostas Skenderis
(42 pages).
hep-th/0210145:
Enumerative geometry and knot invariants. Marcos Marino (69
pages, 13 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the meeting of
theoretical physicists and mathematicians held at Strasbourg, May
2002).
hep-th/0004186:
Yang-Mills- and D-instantons. A.V. Belitsky, S. Vandoren, P.
van Nieuwenhuizen (62 pages), Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3521-3570.
hep-th/0003119:
Lattice Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence. M. Caselle
(80 pages, 6 figures, lectures delivered at the School of Theoretical
Physics, Parma,1999), Int.J.Mod.Phys. A15 (2000) 3901-3966.
hep-th/0205075:
Rudiments of Holography. Enrique Alvarez, Jorge Conde, Lorenzo
Hernandez (60 pages. Elementary introduction to Maldacena's AdS/CFT
correspondence, based on lectures given by E.A. at the Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid).
hep-th/9912164:
TASI Lectures on Branes, Black Holes and Anti-de Sitter Space.
M. J. Duff (122 pages).
hep-th/9908171:
N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and the AdS/SCFT correspondence.
Stefano Kovacs ( 228 pages, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata" Ph.D.
thesis).
hep-th/9908148:
Large N gauge theories and AdS/CFT correspondence. Paolo Di
Vecchia (64 pages; Lectures given at the Spring Workshop on Superstring
and Related Matters, Trieste, Italy, March 1999).
hep-th/9908004:
Dynamics of D-brane Black Holes, Steven S. Gubser (117 pages,
Princeton University PhD thesis, completed June 1998).
hep-th/9903007:
An introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence. Paolo Di Vecchia
(7 pages; talk given at the 32nd International Symposium on the Theory
of Elementary Particles, Buckow, Germany, Sept. 1-5, 1998) Fortsch.Phys.
48 (2000) 87-92.
hep-th/9902131:
Introduction to the Maldacena Conjecture on AdS/CFT. Jens L.
Petersen (71 pages, lecture notes), Int.J.Mod.Phys. A14 (1999) 3597-3672.
hep-th/9902022:
Two Lectures on the AdS/CFT Correspondence. Michael R. Douglas,
S. Randjbar-Daemi.
hep-th/9901018:
From Threebranes to Large N Gauge Theories. Igor R. Klebanov
(20 pages; based on the talk at Orbis Scientiae '98, Ft. Lauderdale,
FL, December 1998).
BLACK
HOLES Back
to Top
hep-th/0204027:
Twenty Years of Debate with Stephen. Leonard Susskind (19 pages).
gr-qc/0010055:
An Introduction to Black Hole Evaporation. Jennie Traschen
(33 pages; Published in Mathematical Methods of Physics, proceedings
of the 1999 Londrina Winter School, editors A. Bytsenko and F. Williams,
World Scientific, 2000).
hep-th/9910082:
Comments on Black Holes in String Theory. Gary T. Horowitz
(13 pages. Talk given at Strings '99, Potsdam, Germany), Class.Quant.Grav.
17 (2000) 1107-1116
gr-qc/9808035:
Black Holes. Gary T. Horowitz, Saul A. Teukolsky (13 pages). Rev.Mod.Phys.
71 (1999) S180-S186.
astro-ph/9801252:
Black Holes : A General Introduction, Jean-Pierre Luminet (32
pages, 23 figures; in BLACK HOLES : THEORY AND OBSERVATION, Springer,
1998).
hep-th/9508151:
The black hole information paradox. Steven B. Giddings (15
pages, PASCOS 95).
hep-th/9501071:
Les Houches Lectures on Black Holes. Andy Strominger (70 pages,
18 figures. Lectures presented at the 1994 Les Houches Summer School
``Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory.'')
hep-th/9412138:
Quantum Mechanics of Black Holes. Steven B. Giddings (52 pages;
Lectures presented at the 1994 Trieste Summer School in High Energy
Physics and Cosmology).
hep-th/9412131:
Lectures On Black Hole Evaporation and Information Loss. Thomas Banks
(65 pages, 9 figures), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 41 (1995) 21-65.
hep-th/9409195:
The Nature of Space and Time. S.W.Hawking (62 pages with 51
figures).
hep-th/9209055:
Quantum Aspects of Black Holes. J. A. Harvey, A. Strominger
(54 pages, 16 figures; lectures given at the 1992 Trieste Spring School
on String Theory and Quantum Gravity and at the 1992 TASI Summer School).
BLACK
HOLE ENTROPY Back
to Top
hep-th/9712253:
The Bekenstein Formula and String Theory (N-brane Theory).
Amanda W. Peet (53 pages), Class.Quant.Grav. 15 (1998) 3291-3338.
hep-th/9607235:
Black Holes in String Theory. Juan M. Maldacena (80 pages,
8 figures; Princeton University Ph. D. Thesis, June 1996).
hep-th/0203048:
Microscopic Formulation of Black Holes in String Theory. Justin
R. David, Gautam Mandal, Spenta R. Wadia (166 pages, 4 figures; Written
for Physics Reports).
gr-qc/0107034:
Black Holes and String Theory. Robert C. Myers (lectures given
at the 4th Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics).
gr-qc/0105063:
The Quantum Physics of Black Holes: Results from String Theory.
Sumit R. Das, Samir D. Mathur (49 pages, 4 figures), Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.
50 (2000) 153-206.
hep-th/0008241:
TASI lectures on black holes in string theory. Amanda W. Peet
(80 pages, 8 figures).
hep-th/0006190:
Lectures on the Microscopic Modeling of the 5-dim. Black Hole of
IIB String Theory and the D1-D5 System. Spenta R. Wadia (58 pages).
hep-th/9911066:
Lectures on Superconformal Quantum Mechanics and Multi-Black Hole
Moduli Spaces. Ruth Britto-Pacumio, Jeremy Michelson, Andrew Strominger,
Anastasia Volovich (29 pages, 4 figures; lectures given by A. Strominger
at the 1999 NATO ASI on Quantum Geometry at Akureyri, Iceland).
hep-th/9910082:
Comments on Black Holes in String Theory. Gary T. Horowitz
(13 pages. Talk given at Strings '99, Potsdam, Germany), Class.Quant.Grav.
17 (2000) 1107-1116
hep-th/9909049:
Black holes and the phases of brane thermodynamics. Emil J.
Martinec (29 pages, 12 figures; lectures at Cargese 1999).
hep-th/9908004:
Dynamics of D-brane Black Holes, Steven S. Gubser (117 pages,
Princeton University PhD thesis, completed June 1998).
hep-th/9901095:
Black Holes, Branes and Superconformal Symmetry. Renata Kallosh
(34 pages; published in the Proceedings of a conference held in Corfu,
Greece in September 1998).
hep-th/9901050:
Black holes and branes in string theory. Kostas Skenderis (44p;
Erice lecture notes), Lect.Notes Phys. 541 (2000) 325-364.
hep-th/9705078:
Black Holes and D-branes. Juan M. Maldacena (13 pages, 2 figures),
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 61A (1998) 111-123; Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 62
(1998) 428-442.
gr-qc/9704072:
Quantum States of Black Holes. Gary T. Horowitz ( 33 pages)
hep-th/9701152:
Properties of Black Holes in Toroidally Compactified String Theory.
Mirjam Cvetic (10 pages; compilation of talks given at SUSY'96, CERN
Workshop on Duality in String Theory II, Strings'96, and Buckow'96),
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 56B (1997) 1-10
hep-th/9511227:
String Physics and Black Holes. Leonard Susskind, John Uglum
(20 pages, 6 figures), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 45BC (1996) 115-134.
BORN-INFELD Back
to Top
hep-th/0106059:
Aspects of Born-Infeld Theory and String/M-Theory. G W Gibbons
(29 pages; Lectures delivered, amongst other places, at the 37th Karpacz
School on Theoretical Physics and the 4th Mexican School on Gravitation
and Mathematical Physics).
hep-th/9908105:
Born-Infeld action, supersymmetry and string theory. A.A. Tseytlin
(37 pages, contribution to Yuri Golfand memorial volume)
hep-th/9906075:
Born-Infeld Action in String Theory. Konstantin G. Savvidy
( 83 pages, Princeton University PhD Thesis, June 1999).
BOUNDARY
STATES Back
to Top
hep-th/9912161:
D branes in string theory,I. Paolo Di Vecchia, Antonella Liccardo
(58 pages; Lectures given at NATO-ASI on "Quantum Geometry" in Akureyri,
Iceland, August 1999).
hep-th/9912275:
D branes in string theory, II. Paolo Di Vecchia, Antonella Liccardo
(43 pages, Lectures presented at the YITP Workshop on ``Developments
in Superstring and M-theory'', Kyoto, Japan, October 1999).
BRANES
(GENERAL) Back
to Top
hep-th/9611203:
Supermembranes. M. J. Duff ( 76 pages, based on lectures given
at the T. A. S. I. Summer School, University of Colorado, Boulder,
June 1996; the Topical Meeting, Imperial College, London, July 1996
and the 26th British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary
Particle Physics, University of Swansea, September 1996).
hep-th/0210157:
Intersecting brane solutions in string and M-theory. Douglas
J. Smith (84 pages. Prepared as a Topical Review for Classical and
Quantum Gravity).
hep-th/0209241:
Lectures on Branes in Curved Backgrounds. Volker Schomerus
(109 pages, 11 figures; Lectures presented at the third RTN school
on `The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of
Fundamental Interactions', Utrecht, January 2002).
hep-th/9701088:
Lectures on Supergravity p-branes. K.S. Stelle ( 53 pages, 4 figures,
Lectures presented at 1996 ICTP Summer School, Trieste).
hep-th/9710046:
Black Holes and Solitons in String Theory. Donam Youm (240
pages), Phys.Rept. 316 (1999) 1-232.
hep-th/9803116:
BPS Branes in Supergravity. K.S. Stelle (99 pages, 7 figures;
Based on lectures given at the ICTP Summer School in 1996 and 1997).
hep-th/0110084:
Branes and Brane Worlds in M-Theory. J.F. Vazquez-Poritz (189
pages, 15 figures, Penn Ph.D. Thesis, advisor: Mirjam Cvetic).
hep-th/9811101:
Supergravity, Brane Dynamics and String Duality. P. West (109
pages, 2 figures).
hep-th/0004039:
Brane Theory Solitons. P.K. Townsend (1999 Cargese Lectures).
BRANE
WORLDS Back
to Top
hep-ph/0012151:
Classical and Quantum Brane Cosmology. John March-Russell (12
pages),
hep-th/0009247:
Lectures on Warped Compactifications and Stringy Brane Constructions.
S. Kachru (31 pages; proceedings of TASI 1999 and the 2000 Trieste
Spring Workshop on Superstrings).
hep-th/0202044:
Brane Cosmology. E. Papantonopoulos (24 pages, 5 figures, Lectures
presented at the First Aegean Summer School on Cosmology, Samos, September
2001).
hep-th/0210217:
Braneworld Cosmology and Holography. Antonio Padilla (PhD.
Thesis, supervisor: Ruth Gregory).
hep-th/0110084:
Branes and Brane Worlds in M-Theory. J.F. Vazquez-Poritz (189
pages, 15 figures, Penn Ph.D. Thesis, advisor: Mirjam Cvetic).
hep-ph/9807344:
Phenomenology, Astrophysics and Cosmology of Theories with Sub-Millimeter
Dimensions and TeV Scale Quantum Gravity. N. Arkani-Hamed, S.
Dimopoulos, and G. Dvali (51 pages, Phys. Rev. D59 (1999) 086004).
COMPACTIFICATION
(see also PHENOMENOLOGY) Back
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math.DG/0108088:
Lectures on Calabi-Yau and special Lagrangian geometry. Dominic
Joyce (56 pages).
hep-th/0201114:
TASI lectures: special holonomy in string theory and M-theory.
Steven S. Gubser (35 pages, 9 figures, Lectures delivered at TASI
'01).
hep-th/0201062:
M-theory on manifolds of G_2 holonomy: the first twenty years.
M. J. Duff (15 pages, talk at the Supergravity@25 conference, Stony
Brook, December 2001)
hep-th/0001001:
Compactification, Geometry and Duality: N=2. Paul S. Aspinwall
(82 pages, 8 figures, TASI99).
hep-th/9705173:
Aspects of N=1 String Dynamics. Shamit Kachru (16 pages, 6
figures. Lectures delivered at 33rd Karpacz Winter School), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
61A (1998) 42-57.
hep-th/9702155:
String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds. Brian Greene (150 pages,
44 figures; TASI96).
hep-th/9611137:
K3 Surfaces and String Duality.: Paul S. Aspinwall (109 pages,
11 figures, TASI96).
COSMOLOGY
(see also BRANEWORLDS) Back
to Top
hep-th/0011110:
TASI Lectures: Cosmology for String Theorists. Sean M. Carroll
(56 pages, 3 figures; Lectures at TASI-99).
hep-th/0111275:
String Cosmology. Nick E. Mavromatos (64 pages latex, 11 eps
figures; Proceedings of First Aegean Summer School on Cosmology, Samos
(Greece), September 2001).
astro-ph/0107571:
Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe. Sean M. Carroll
(17 pages).
hep-ph/0110122:
The Enigma of the Dark Matter. Shaaban Khalil, Carlos Munoz
(20 pages, 5 figures; invited review article for the journal Contemporary
Physics; level suitable for researchers which are non-specialists
in the subject, and also for students).
hep-th/0103156:
The Promise of String Cosmology. Robert H. Brandenberger (Workshop
on String Cosmology held from July 24 - Aug. 4 2000 at PIMS, Univ.
of British Columbia, to be published in APCTP Bulletin # 6, 2001).
hep-th/0111275:
String Cosmology. Nick E. Mavromatos (64 pages latex, 11 figures).
hep-th/0209016:
New Developments in String Gravity and String Cosmology.A Summary
Report. Norma G. Sanchez (Chalonge School Lectures on Astrofundamental
Physics, 9th Course 7-18 September 2002, To appear in the Proceedings
edited by N.G. Sanchez and Yu. Parijskij, NATO ASI Series, Kluwer
Pub.)
astro-ph/0102402:
The Cosmic Microwave Background. Arthur Kosowsky (52 pages;
Lectures given at the Italian Society of Gravitational Physics summer
school in Como, Italy, May 2000), in Modern Cosmology, eds. S. Bonometto,
V. Gorini, and U. Moschella, IOP Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia,
2002.
gr-qc/0209047:
Theories of Everything and Hawking's Wave Function of the Universe.
James B. Hartle (14 pages, 4 figures, LaTex, To be published by Cambridge
University Press).
hep-ph/0101270:
Lectures on Cosmic Topological Defects. Tanmay Vachaspati (34
pages; lectures at the 2000 summer school in cosmology at ICTP, Trieste).
hep-ph/0101119:
A Status Review of Inflationary Cosmology. Robert H. Brandenberger
(20 pages invited lecture at JGRG10, Osaka, Japan, Sept. 11 - 14,
2000).
gr-qc/0101003:
An introduction to quantum cosmology. D.L. Wiltshire (60 pages,
11 figures), in "Cosmology: the Physics of the Universe", eds B. Robson,
N. Visvanathan and W.S. Woolcock, World Scientific, Singapore, 1996,
pp 473-531).
astro-ph/0005265:
The Cosmological Constant Problems. Steven Weinberg (10 pages;
Talk given at Dark Matter 2000, February, 2000).
astro-ph/0004075:
The Cosmological Constant. Sean M. Carroll (50 pages), Living
Rev.Rel. 4 (2001) 1.
hep-th/0004149:
String cosmology versus standard and inflationary cosmology.
M. Gasperini ( 22 pages, 3 figures), Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) R1-R18.
hep-th/0002094:
String Cosmology: The Pre-Big Bang Scenario. G. Veneziano (46
pages, 8 Figures; Lectures delivered in Les Houches, July 1999).
astro-ph/9912373:
Cosmology report. Martin J. Rees, (Proceedings of NATO ASI
on Cosmology held at the Isaac Newton Institute, ed R. Crittenden)
hep-th/9911067:
M Theory and Cosmology. Tom Banks (86 pages, 3 figures).
hep-ph/9910410:
Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems. Robert H. Brandenberger
(43 pages, 8 figures; Invited lectures at the International School
on Cosmology, Kish Island, Iran, Jan. 22 - Feb. 4 1999).
astro-ph/9906463:
The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe. N.
Bahcall, J.P. Ostriker, S. Perlmutter, P. J. Steinhardt (36 pages,
8 eps figures), Science 284, 1481-1488, (1999)
hep-ph/9906447:
Determination of cosmological parameters: an introduction for non-specialists.
Palash B. Pal (12 pages; invited talk at the ``Discussion meeting
on Recent Developments in Neutrino Physics'', held at the Physical
Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, February 2--4, 1999).
hep-ph/9904502:
Introduction to Cosmology. G. Lazarides (15 pages; lectures given
at the Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics/South
European School on Elementary Particle Physics, 6-26 September 1998,
Kerkyra, Greece).
astro-ph/9904049:
Why Cosmologists Believe the Universe is Accelerating. Michael
S. Turner (14 pages, 9 figures; proceedings of Type Ia Supernovae:
Theory and Cosmology, University of Chicago, edited by Jens Niemeyer
and James Truran (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK).
astro-ph/9901124:
An introduction to cosmological inflation. Andrew R Liddle
(36 pages, 5 figures; proceedings of ICTP summer school in high-energy
physics, 1998).
astro-ph/9704062:
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Inflation. Michael S.
Turner (34 pages, 11 figures. To be published in Generation of Cosmological
Large-scale Structure, edited by D.N. Schramm, Kluwer, Dordrecht,
1997)
gr-qc/9712019:
Lecture Notes on General Relativity. Sean M. Carroll (238 pages,
numerous figures).
D-BRANES
(see also BOUNDARY STATES)
Back
to Top
hep-th/9611050:
TASI Lectures on D-Branes. Joseph Polchinski (63 Pages, 13
figures, TASI96).
hep-th/0007170:
D-Brane Primer. Clifford V. Johnson (222 pages; numerous figures
and inserts; Expanded writeup of lectures given at ICTP, TASI, and
BUSSTEPP).
hep-th/9611214:
Scattering of Strings from D-branes. Akikazu Hashimoto, Igor
Klebanov (16 pages, 4 figures; Lectures given by Igor Klebanov at
the Trieste Spring School 1996).
hep-th/9812196:
Etudes on D-Branes. Clifford V. Johnson (56 pages, 12 figures,
1998 Trieste Spring School entitled ``Non-Perturbative Aspects of
String Theory and Supersymmetric Gauge Theory'').
hep-th/9806199:
Lectures on D-branes. Constantin P. Bachas ( 61 pages, 8 figures.
Based on lectures given in 1997 at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge,
the Trieste Spring School on String Theory, and at the 31rst International
Symposium Ahrenshoop in Buckow).
hep-th/9802067:
Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory. A. Giveon, D. Kutasov (291
pages, 52 figures), Rev.Mod.Phys. 71 (1999) 983-1084.
hep-th/0209230:
On Algebraic Singularities, Finite Graphs and D-Brane Gauge Theories:
A String Theoretic Perspective. Yang-Hui He (513 pages, 71 figs,
Edited Excerpts from the first 3 volumes of the author's PhD Thesis).
hep-th/0201113:
D-branes from conformal field theory. Matthias R Gaberdiel
(19 pages, 4 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the RTN meeting
`The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental
Interactions', Corfu, September 2001).
hep-th/0010015:
A Brief History of the Stringy Instanton. Nick Dorey, Timothy
J. Hollowood, Valentin V. Khoze (17 pages; contribution to ``Non-perturbative
Quantum Effects 2000'', Paris September 2000).
hep-th/9708078:
Introduction to D-branes. Larus Thorlacius (13 pages, 4 figures;
Lectures presented at the 33rd Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical
Physics, Karpacz, Poland, 13-22 February 1997), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
61A (1998) 86-98.
hep-th/9701019:
(Half) a Lecture on D-branes. C. Bachas (20 pages, to appear
in Proceedings of the Workshop on Gauge Theories, Applied Supersymmetry
and Quantum Gravity, Imperial College, London, July 1996).
hep-th/9610041:
Superstring Dualities, Dirichlet Branes and the Small Scale Structure
of Space, Michael R. Douglas ( 29 pp, proceedings of the LXIV
Les Houches session on `Quantum Symmetries', August 1995).
hep-th/9606196:
Introduction to D-Branes, with Applications. Clifford V. Johnson
(6 pages, 6 figures), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 52A (1997) 326-334
.hep-th/9602052:
Notes on D-Branes. Joseph Polchinski, Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Clifford
V. Johnson (45 pages).
dS/CFT Back
to Top
hep-th/0110007:
Les Houches Lectures on De Sitter Space. Marcus Spradlin, Andrew
Strominger, Anastasia Volovich (29 pages, 8 figures).
DUALITIES
(see also GAUGE THEORIES) Back
to Top
hep-th/9607201:
Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities. John H. Schwarz
(67 pages, 1 figure; Lectures given at the ICTP Spring School, March
1996, and the TASI Summer School (June 1996), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
55B (1997) 1-32.
hep-th/9401139:
Target Space Duality in String Theory. A. Giveon, M. Porrati,
E. Rabinovici (151 pages, 10 figures), Phys.Rept. 244 (1994) 77-202.
hep-th/9809039:
U-duality and M-Theory. N.A. Obers, B. Pioline (132 pages,
37 tables), Phys.Rept. 318 (1999) 113-225.
math.AG/9809004:
String Theory and Duality. Paul S. Aspinwall (1- pages), Doc.Math.J.DMV
2 (1998). 229-238
hep-th/9703136:
Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality. R. Dijkgraaf
(152 pages, 31 figures).
hep-th/9702201:
Lectures on Strings and Dualities. Cumrun Vafa (53 pages).
hep-th/9612192:
Duality in String Theory. Stefan Forste, Jan Louis (38 pages,
2 figures), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 61A (1998) 3-22.
hep-th/9611137:
K3 Surfaces and String Duality.: Paul S. Aspinwall (109 pages,
11 figures, TASI96).
hep-th/9603086:
Magnetic Monopoles, Duality, and Supersymmetry. Jeffrey A.
Harvey (62 pages; lectures given at the 1995 Trieste Summer School
in High Energy Physics and Cosmology and at the 1995 Busstepp Summer
School at Cosener's House).
hep-th/9709180:
Duality in Quantum Field Theory (and String Theory). Luis Alvarez-Gaume,
Frederic Zamora (38 pages, 7 figures; Based on a lectures delivered
by L. A.-G. at `The Workshop on Fundamental Particles and Interactions',
held in Vanderbilt University, and CERN-La Plata-Santiago de Compostela
School of Physics, both in May 1997).
hep-th/9706210:
Duality and Global Symmetries. Fernando Quevedo (19 pages),
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 61A (1998) 23-41.
FIELD
THEORY Back
to Top
hep-th/9912205:
Fields. W. Siegel ( 710+21 pages, 44 figures, 355 exercises,
748 references).
math-ph/0204014:
Lectures on Quantum Field Theory. R. E. Borcherds, A. Barnard
( 76 pages, 35 figures; 15 week course by R.E.B., aimed at graduate
mathematicians, fall 2001, Berkeley).
hep-th/0203096:
A Brief Course in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking I. The Paleolitic
Age. Robert Brout (28 pages, 9 figures; presented at the 2001
Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics).
hep-th/0203097:
A Brief Course in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking II. Modern Times:
The BEH Mechanism. Francois Englert (25 pages 9 figures; presented
at the 2001 Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particle Physics).
hep-th/0210172:
Axions: Past, Present, and Future. Mark Srednicki (12 pages).
hep-th/0110026:
Lectures on the functional renormalization group method. Janos
Polonyi (47 pages, 11 fugures).
hep-th/0111228:
Bits and Pieces in Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory. Michael
Flohr (90 pages, notes of lectures delivered at the first School and
Workshop on Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory and its Applications,
Tehran, September 2001).
hep-ph/0103141:
Finite temperature field theory. M.-P. Lombardo (34 pages,
11 figures; lectures given at the Summer School on Astroparticle Physics
and Cosmology, ICTP, Trieste, 12-30 June 2000).
cond-mat/0011011:
Critical Phenomena: An Introduction from a modern perspective.
Somendra M. Bhattacharjee (26 pages, 2 figures; Lectures given at
the SERC School on "Field theoretic methods in Condensed matter physics",
held at MRI, Allahabad, India).
hep-ph/0005272:
Quantum Field Theory at Finite Temperature: An Introduction.
J. Zinn-Justin (65 pages; Lecture notes).
hep-th/0002034:
Exact Renormalization Group Equations. An Introductory Review.
C. Bagnuls, C. Bervillier (65 pages, 6 figs), Phys.Rept. 348 (2001)
91.
hep-ph/0002303:
The Past and Future of S-Matrix Theory. Alan. R. White (43
pages, 12 figures; Contribution to ``Scattering'', Academic Press,
edited by E. R. Pike and P. Sabatier).
hep-th/0111260:
An algebraic approach to logarithmic conformal field theory. Matthias
R Gaberdiel (55 pages, 2 figures; notes of lectures delivered at the
school on Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory and its Applications,
IPM Tehran, September 2001)
hep-th/0011260:
Topological quantum field theories. Albert Schwarz.
nucl-th/0010015:
Introduction to Effective Field Theory. Barry R. Holstein (12
pages; Talk given at European Few Body Physics Meeting, Evora, Portugal,
September 2000).
hep-ph/9807443:
Renormalons. M. Beneke (168 pages, 23 figures; Phys.Rept. 317
(1999) 1-142).
hep-th/9712074:
Restrictions Imposed by Superconformal Invariance on Quantum Field
Theories. Shiraz Minwalla (66 pages), Adv.Theor.Math.Phys. 2 (1998)
781-846.
hep-th/9610108:
An Introduction to the Worldline Technique for Quantum Field Theory
Calculations. Christian Schubert (33 pages, 10 figures; Lectures
given at XXXVI Cracow School of Theoretical Physics Zakopane 1996)
Acta Phys.Polon. B27 (1996) 3965-4001.
hep-th/9210046:
Effective Field Theory and the Fermi Surface. Joseph Polchinski
(39 pages. Lectures presented at TASI 1992).
hep-th/9902115:
Aspects of Chern-Simons Theory. Gerald V. Dunne (76 pages,
9 figures; Les Houches Lectures 1998).
GAUGE
THEORIES Back
to Top
hep-th/9802067:
Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory. A. Giveon, D. Kutasov (291
pages, 52 figures), Rev.Mod.Phys. 71 (1999) 983-1084.
hep-th/0210044:
Supersymmetric Gauge Theories. D. S. Berman, E. Rabinovici
( 111 pages, 40 figures; Lectures delivered in Les Houches 2001).
hep-ph/0011376:
TASI Lectures on The Strong CP Problem. Michael Dine (24 pages).
hep-th/0010015:
A Brief History of the Stringy Instanton. Nick Dorey, Timothy
J. Hollowood, Valentin V. Khoze (17 pages; contribution to ``Non-perturbative
Quantum Effects 2000'', Paris September 2000).
hep-ph/0009136:
A Primer on Instantons in QCD. Hilmar Forkel (36 pages, 7 figures;
lectures given at the ``12th Workshop on Hadronic Interactions'' at
the IF/UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, 31. 5. - 2. 6. 2000).
hep-th/0004186:
Yang-Mills- and D-instantons. A.V. Belitsky, S. Vandoren, P.
van Nieuwenhuizen (62 pages), Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3521-3570.
hep-th/0209230:
On Algebraic Singularities, Finite Graphs and D-Brane Gauge Theories:
A String Theoretic Perspective. Yang-Hui He (513 pages, 71 figs,
Edited Excerpts from the first 3 volumes of the author's PhD Thesis).
hep-th/0007240:
New Superconformal Field Theories in Four Dimensions and N=1 Duality.
M. Chaichian, W.F. Chen, C. Montonen (239 pages, 4 eps figures), Phys.Rept.
346 (2001) 89-341.
hep-th/9812187:
Glueball masses and other physical properties of SU(N) gauge theories
in D=3+1: a review of lattice results for theorists. Michael Teper
(28 pages).
hep-th/9803026:
Duality in supersymmetric N=2,4 gauge theories. Paolo Di Vecchia
(85 pages).
hep-ph/9802419:
Large N QCD. Aneesh V. Manohar ( 82 pages, 47 figures, 1997
Les Houches Lectures).
hep-th/0001047:
Large-N Gauge Theories. Yuri Makeenko ( 69pp, 23 figures; Lectures
at the 1999 NATO-ASI on "Quantum Geometry" in Akureyri, Iceland).
hep-ph/0111338:
QCD Baryons in the 1/N_c Expansion. E. Jenkins (25 pages; Invited
lectures VIII Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields, Nov. 14-20,
2001, Zacatecas, Mexico).
hep-th/9912271
: Lectures on Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory and Integrable Systems.
Eric D'Hoker, D. H. Phong (124 pages, 1 figure).
hep-ph/9705211:
Introduction to Gauge Theories. C. Becchi (28 pages; Lectures
given at the Triangle Graduate School 96, Charles University, Prague
September 2-11, 1996).
hep-th/9705117:
Notes on Theories with 16 Supercharges. Nathan Seiberg (22
pages; updated version of lectures presented at the Jerusalem Winter
School on Strings and Duality. These notes will appear in the Proceedings
of The Trieste Spring School, March 7--12), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
67 (1998) 158-171.
hep-th/9704114:
Non-Perturbative Dynamics in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.
M. Shifman (121 pages, 4 figure; Extended version of lectures given
at International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Varenna, Italy,
July 3-6, 1995; Institute of Nuclear Science, UNAM, Mexico, April
11-17, 1996, and Summer School in High-Energy Physics and Cosmology,
10 - 26 July, 1996, ICTP, Trieste, Italy), Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 39
(1997) 1-116.
hep-th/9702094:
Duality in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. Michael E. Peskin
(80 pages, 12 figures, TASI96).
hep-th/9701069:
Introduction to S-Duality in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory. (A
pedagogical review of the work of Seiberg and Witten). L. Alvarez-Gaume,
S.F. Hassan (81 pages, 7 figures), Fortsch.Phys. 45 (1997) 159-236.
hep-th/9611209:
Solitons, monopoles and duality: from sine-Gordon to Seiberg-Witten.
Sergei V. Ketov ( 72 pages), Fortsch.Phys. 45 (1997) 237-292.
hep-th/9611190:
Introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory and its Stringy Origin.
W. Lerche (37p, 22 figs; Proceedings of 1996 Trieste Spring School
on String Theory), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 55B (1997) 83-117; Fortsch.Phys.
45 (1997) 293-340.
hep-th/9608090:
Duality in supersymmetric gauge theories. Paolo Di Vecchia
(35 pages), Surveys High Energ.Phys. 10 (1997) 119-151.
hep-th/9509066:
Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric-magnetic
duality. K. Intriligator, N. Seiberg (44 pages), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
45BC (1996) 1-28 .
HOLOGRAPHY Back
to Top
hep-th/0203101:
The holographic principle. Raphael Bousso (51 pages, 10 figures,
invited review for Rev. Mod. Phys).
hep-th/0002044:
TASI lectures on the Holographic Principle. Daniela Bigatti,
Leonard Susskind (37 pages, 20 figures).
LITTLE
STRING THEORIES Back
to Top
hep-th/9911147:
A brief review of "little string theories". Ofer Aharony (11
pages, contribution to Strings '99 proceedings), Class.Quant.Grav.
17 (2000) 929-938.
M
THEORY
hep-th/0201032:
Lectures on Heterotic M-Theory. Burt A. Ovrut (48 pages, Lectures
presented at the TASI 2000 School on Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions,
Boulder, Co, June 3-29, 2001).
hep-th/9811019:
Introduction to M Theory. Miao Li (76 pages).
hep-th/9809204:
Topics in M-Theory. E. Sezgin (51 pages, 2 figures, contribution
to the Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting, 19-22 Nov 1997, Trieste, Italy).
hep-th/9712004:
M-theory from its superalgebra. P.K. Townsend (43 pp. Cargese
lectures 1997).
hep-th/9703118:
BPS bound states, supermembranes, and T-duality in M-theory.
J.G. Russo (42 pages. Lectures given at the APCTP Winter School "Dualities
of Gauge and String Theories", Korea, February 1997).
MATH Back
to Top
hep-th/0210145:
Enumerative geometry and knot invariants. Marcos Marino (69
pages, 13 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the meeting of
theoretical physicists and mathematicians held at Strasbourg, May
2002)
math.DG/0108088:
Lectures on Calabi-Yau and special Lagrangian geometry. Dominic
Joyce (56 pages).
hep-th/0107079:
Math and Physics. Jose M. F. Labastida (20 pages; talk delivered
at the special seminar in honor of F. J. Yndurain).
hep-th/0007175:
Overview Of K-Theory Applied To Strings. Edward Witten (20
pp), Int.J.Mod.Phys. A16 (2001) 693-706.
math-ph/0003018:
An Introduction to Quantum Algebras and Their Applications.
R. Jaganathan (15 pages)
hep-th/0003006:
A Short Survey of Noncommutative Geometry. Alain Connes (45p;
Invited lecture for JMP 2000), J.Math.Phys. 41 (2000) 3832-3866.
MATRIX
THEORY Back
to Top
hep-th/0101126:
M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory.
Washington Taylor ( 56 pages, 3 figures), Rev.Mod.Phys. 73 (2001)
419-462.
hep-th/0002016:
The M(atrix) model of M-theory. Washington Taylor ( 80 pages,
4 figures; Lectures for NATO school "Quantum Geometry", Iceland 1999).
hep-th/9712072:
Review of Matrix Theory. Daniela Bigatti, Leonard Susskind
(45 pages, 2 figures).
hep-th/0012145:
Introduction to M(atrix) theory and noncommutative geometry. A.
Konechny, A. Schwarz (The second part of this review is now available
as a preprint hep-th/0107251).
hep-th/0107251:
Introduction to M(atrix) theory and noncommutative geometry, Part
II. A. Konechny, A. Schwarz (34 pages).
hep-th/9911068:
TASI Lectures on Matrix Theory. Tom Banks (47 pages).
hep-th/9903165:
M-Theory and the Light Cone. Joseph Polchinski (13 pages, 3
figures) Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl. 134 (1999) 158-170.
hep-th/0201182:
An Introduction to the Quantum Supermembrane. Arundhati Dasgupta,
Hermann Nicolai, Jan Plefka (24pgs, 4 figures), Grav. Cosm. Vol. 8
(2002) 1.
hep-th/0109149:
Nonperturbative Formulations of Superstring Theory. Lubos Motl
(156 pages, 4 figures, Rutgers PhD thesis).
hep-th/9809103:
Supermembranes and M(atrix) Theory. Hermann Nicolai, Robert
Helling (46 pages, 4 figures, Lectures given by H. Nicolai at the
Trieste Spring School on Non-Perturbative Aspects of String Theory
and Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, 23 - 31 March 1998).
hep-th/9801182:
Lectures on D-branes, Gauge Theory and M(atrices). Washington
Taylor (80 pages, 8 figures; lectures presented at Trieste summer
school on particle physics and cosmology, June 1997)
hep-th/9710231:
Matrix Theory. Tom Banks ( 72 pages), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
67 (1998) 180-224.
hep-th/9710136:
M(atrix) Theory : a Pedagogical Introduction. Adel Bilal (20
pages, 2 figures), Fortsch.Phys. 47 (1999) 5-28.
hep-th/9706168:
The State of Matrix Theory. Tom Banks (11 pages), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.
62 (1998) 341-347; Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 68 (1998) 261-267.
hep-th/9704075:
Three Introductory Lectures in Helsinki on Matrix Models of Superstrings.
Yuri Makeenko (27pp., 2 figure) .
MATRIX
STRING THEORY Back
to Top
hep-th/9909227:
Symmetries and interactions in matrix string theory. Feike
Hacquebord (115 pages, University of Amsterdam PhD-thesis, September
1999).
NON-BPS/UNSTABLE
BRANES Back
to Top
hep-th/0005029:
Lectures on Non-BPS Dirichlet branes. Matthias R Gaberdiel
(46 pages, 5 figures; lectures given at the TMR network school on
`Quantum aspects of gauge theories, supersymmetry and quantum gravity',
Torino, 26 January - 2 February 2000, and at the `Spring workshop
on Superstrings and related matters', Trieste, 27 March - 4 April
2000), Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3483-3520.
hep-th/9908144:
TASI Lectures on Non-BPS D-Brane Systems. John H.Schwarz (39
pages; Presented at TASI-99 and Cargese-99).
hep-th/9905006:
Stable non-BPS states in string theory: a pedagogical review.
A. Lerda, R. Russo (58 pages, 1 figure), Int.J.Mod.Phys. A15 (2000)
771-820
hep-th/9904207:
Non-BPS States and Branes in String Theory. Ashoke Sen (53
pages, 17 figures, APCTP winter school lectures).
hep-th/0210231:
Defects, Decay, and Dissipated States. Emil J. Martinec (45
pages, 21 figures; lectures at Cargese, June 2002)
hep-th/0209210:
D-Branes, Tachyons and K-Homology. Richard J. Szabo (18 pages,
3 figures; Based on invited lecture given at the Workshop on Algebraic
Geometry and Physics ``K-Theory, Derived Categories and Strings'',
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, June 18-21 2002).
hep-th/0102085:
A Review on Tachyon Condensation in Open String Field Theories.
Kazuki Ohmori (256 pages, 30 figures; Univ. of Tokyo master's thesis).
hep-th/0102076:
Komaba Lectures on Noncommutative Solitons and D-Branes. Jeffrey
A.Harvey ( 43 pages).
hep-th/0109182:
Tachyon Condensation: Calculations in String Field Theory.
Pieter-Jan De Smet ( 130 pages, 20 figures, K.U.Leuven Ph.D. thesis).
NONCOMMUTATIVITY Back
to Top
hep-th/0106048:
Noncommutative Field Theory. Michael R. Douglas, Nikita A.
Nekrasov (56 pp, 6 figures).
hep-th/0203109:
Lectures on open strings, and noncommutative gauge fields.
Nikita A. Nekrasov (12 pp).
hep-th/0012145:
Introduction to M(atrix) theory and noncommutative geometry. A.
Konechny, A. Schwarz (The second part of this review is now available
as a preprint hep-th/0107251).
hep-th/0107251:
Introduction to M(atrix) theory and noncommutative geometry, Part
II. A. Konechny, A. Schwarz (34 pages).
hep-th/0109162:
Quantum Field Theory on Noncommutative Spaces. Richard J. Szabo
(107 pages 6 eps figures).
hep-th/0102076:
Komaba Lectures on Noncommutative Solitons and D-Branes. Jeffrey
A.Harvey ( 43 pages).
hep-th/0111208:
Noncommutative Field Theories and (Super)String Field Theories.
I.Ya.Aref'eva, D.M.Belov, A.A.Giryavets, A.S.Koshelev, P.B.Medvedev
(160 pages, 29 figures. Lectures given by I.Ya.Aref'eva at the Swieca
Summer School, Brazil, January 2001; Summer School in Modern Mathematical
Physics, Sokobanja, Yugoslavia, August 2001; Max Born Symposium, Karpacz,
Poland, September, 2001; Workshop "Noncommutative Geometry, Strings
and Renormalization", Leipzig, Germany, September 2001).
hep-th/0006012:
Non-commutative spaces in physics and mathematics, Daniela
Bigatti (27 pages, figures, first part appeared as hep-th/9802129),
Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3403-3428.
hep-th/9802129:
Non commutative geometry for outsiders; an elementary introduction
to motivations and tools. Daniela Bigatti (18 pages, 4 figures).
hep-th/0003006:
A Short Survey of Noncommutative Geometry. Alain Connes (45p;
Invited lecture for JMP 2000), J.Math.Phys. 41 (2000) 3832-3866.
gr-qc/9906059:
Noncommutative Geometry for Pedestrians. J. Madore (28 pages;
Lecture given at the International School of Gravitation, Erice).
hep-th/0111236:
Forces from Connes' geometry. Thomas Schucker (64 pages, 6
embedded figures, Lectures given at the Graduiertenkolleg `Topology
and Geometry in Physics', september 2001, Rot an der Rot, Germany
Editors: Eike Bick and Frank Steffen).
PHENOMENOLOGY
(see also BRANEWORLDS and COMPACTIFICATION) Back
to Top
hep-th/0003175:
TASI Lectures on M Theory Phenomenology. Michael Dine (68 pages).
hep-ph/9911499:
The second string (phenomenology) revolution. L.E. Ibanez (15
pages, no figures; Contribution to the proceedings of Strings 99,
Potsdam, Germany, July 1999), Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 1117-1128.
hep-th/9602045:
String Theory and the Path to Unification: A Review of Recent Developments.
Keith R. Dienes (104 pages, 21 figures, 3 tables), Phys.Rept. 287
(1997) 447-525.
hep-th/9603074:
Lectures on Superstring Phenomenology, Fernando Quevedo (41
pages, latex, given at V Latin American Workshop on Particles and
Fields, Mexico, 1995)
hep-th/0201032:
Lectures on Heterotic M-Theory. Burt A. Ovrut (48 pages, Lectures
presented at the TASI 2000 School on Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions,
Boulder, Co, June 3-29, 2001).
hep-ph/9707434:
Superstring Phenomenology: An Overview. Fernando Quevedo (10
pages), Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 62 (1998) 134-143.
hep-th/9512155:
Some Remarks On Superstring Phenomenology. Zurab Kakushadze,
S.-H. Henry Tye ( 9 pages).
hep-th/9512034:
Superstring Extension of the Standard Model and Gravitation.
Costas Kounnas (22 pages).
hep-ph/9511456:
Four-Dimensional Superstring Models. Joseph D. Lykken (44 pages;
lectures from the 1995 Trieste Summer School in High Energy Physics
and Cosmology).
hep-ph/9501322:
Phenomenology of Superstrings. Axel de la Macorra (9 pages,
no figures, Invited talk given at the general meeting of the Canadian,
American and Mexican Physics Society "CAM 94", Cancun, Mexico).
hep-ph/0202058:
Developments in Neutrino Physics. M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Y.
Nir (127 pages, 42 figures).
hep-ph/0201266:
Effective Field Theories of QCD. Johan Bijnens, Ulf-G. Meißner,
Andreas Wirzba (58 pp, LaTeX2e, 2 figs, miniproceedings of the meeting
on ``Effective Field Theories of QCD'', Bad Honnef, Germany, Nov.26-30,
2001).
hep-ph/0104249:
Nonperturbative Phenomena and Phases of QCD. Edward V. Shuryak
(40 pages; Lectures in Schladming winter school 2001),
hep-ph/0012288:
Beyond the Standard Model (In Search of Supersymmetry). D.
I. Kazakov (80 pages, 60 figures; Lectures given at the European School
for High Energy Physics, Caramulo, Portugal, Aug.-Sept. 2000).
hep-ph/0001007:
Introduction to Neutrinos. P. Ramond (11 pages; Invited Talk at
the XI Rencontre de Blois, June 27-July 3, 1999),
hep-ph/0001334:
Introduction to B Physics. Matthias Neubert (52 pages, 15 figure;
Lectures given at the Trieste Summer School in Particle Physics, Trieste,
Italy, 21 June-9 July, 1999).
hep-ph/0001283:
Standard Model: An Introduction. S. F. Novaes (101 pages, 14
figures; in "Particle and Fields", Proceedings of the X J. A. Swieca
Summer School).
hep-ph/9901280:
Introduction to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking. S. Dawson (Lectures
given at the 1998 Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology,
Trieste, Italy, June 29-July 17, 1998).
hep-ph/9712206:
Lectures on Unification. B. Ananthanarayan (28 pages; Lectures
given at the Sixth ICTP-BCSPIN School on Current Trends in High Energy
Physics and Cosmology, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 19-June 3 1997).
hep-ph/9411325:
Introduction to the Physics of Higgs Bosons. Sally Dawson (42
pgs without figures; Lectures given at the 1994 TASI summer school,
Boulder, Colorado).
QUANTUM GRAVITY Back
to Top
gr-qc/0108040:
Quantum Gravity: a Progress Report. S. Carlip (72 pages, 5
figures), Rept.Prog.Phys. 64 (2001) 885
gr-qc/0110034:
Introduction to Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity.
Thomas Thiemann ( 301 pages; based in part on Habilitation Thesis
"Mathematische Formulierung der Quanten-Einstein-Gleichungen", University
of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, January 2000; submitted to the on-line
journal Living Reviews; subject to being updated on at least a bi-annual
basis).
gr-qc/0011089:
Quantum Gravity at the Turn of the Millennium. Gary T. Horowitz
(17 pages, based on talk presented at the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting,
Rome, July, 2000).
hep-th/0209079:
Quantum gravity with a positive cosmologica. Lee Smolin (59
pages).
gr-qc/0006061:
Notes for a brief history of quantum gravity. Carlo Rovelli
(Presented at the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Roma, July 2000).
hep-th/9910131:
The century of the incomplete revolution: searching for general
relativistic quantum field theory. Carlo Rovelli, J.Math.Phys.
41 (2000) 3776-3800
gr-qc/9910079:
Loop Quantum Gravity and the Meaning of Diffeomorphism Invariance.
Marcus Gaul, Carlo Rovelli ( 52 pages. 17 figures; Lectures given
at the 35th Karpacz Winter School on Theoretical Physics: From Cosmology
to Quantum Gravity), Lect.Notes Phys. 541 (2000) 277-324.
gr-qc/9806079:
Loop quantum gravity and quanta of space: a primer. Carlo Rovelli,
Peush Upadhya (11 pages).
gr-qc/9803024:
Strings, loops and others: a critical survey of the present approaches
to quantum gravity. Carlo Rovelli (Plenary lecture on quantum
gravity at the GR15 conference, Pune, India).
gr-qc/9710008:
Loop Quantum Gravity. Carlo Rovelli (34 pages) Living Rev.Rel.
1 (1998) 1.
STRING
FIELD THEORY Back
to Top
hep-th/0107094:
Introduction to string field theory. W. Siegel (247 pages)
hep-th/0105230:
Review of Open Superstring Field Theory. Nathan Berkovits (17
pages).
hep-th/0102085:
A Review on Tachyon Condensation in Open String Field Theories.
Kazuki Ohmori (256 pages, 30 figures; Univ. of Tokyo master's thesis).
hep-th/0111208:
Noncommutative Field Theories and (Super)String Field Theories.
I.Ya.Aref'eva, D.M.Belov, A.A.Giryavets, A.S.Koshelev, P.B.Medvedev
(160 pages, 29 EPS figures. Lectures given by I.Ya.Aref'eva at the
Swieca Summer School, Brazil, January 2001; Summer School in Modern
Mathematical Physics, Sokobanja, Yugoslavia, August 2001; Max Born
Symposium, Karpacz, Poland, September, 2001; Workshop "Noncommutative
Geometry, Strings and Renormalization", Leipzig, Germany, September
2001).
hep-th/0109182:
Tachyon Condensation: Calculations in String Field Theory.
Pieter-Jan De Smet ( 130 pages, 20 figures, K.U.Leuven Ph.D. thesis).
SUPERSYMMETRY Back
to Top
hep-th/0108200:
Superspace, or One thousand and one lessons in supersymmetry.
S.J. Gates Jr, M.T. Grisaru, M. Rocek, W. Siegel (568 pages, pdf only),
Front.Phys. 58 (1983) 1-548.
hep-th/9612114:
Introduction to Supersymmetry. Joseph D. Lykken ( 67 pages; TASI96).
hep-th/0204035:
Lectures on Supergravity. Friedemann Brandt (47 pages, lectures
given at Mitteldeutsche Physik-Combo Oct 2001-Jan 2002).
hep-th/0204016:
Supersymmetry, a Biased Review. U. Lindström (28 pages; lectures
at ``The 22nd Winter School Geometry and Physics, Srni, Czech Republic,
January 12-19, 2002).
hep-ph/0202185:
TASI lectures: weak scale supersymmetry - a top-motivated-bottom-up
approach. Gordon L. Kane (66 pages, no figures).
hep-th/0109172:
BUSSTEPP Lectures on Supersymmetry. Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill
(85 pages, 5 figures).
hep-ph/0108236:
Supersymmetry Structure and Phenomena. Nir Polonsky (169 pages),
Lect.Notes Phys. M68 (2001) 1-169.
hep-th/0105176:
Superspace Methods in String Theory, Supergravity and Gauge Theory.
Martin Cederwall (15 pp,; lectures delivered at the XXXVII Karpacz
Winter School, February 2001).
hep-th/0101055:
Introduction to Supersymmetry. Adel Bilal (77 pages, no figures;
expanded notes of lectures given at the summer school "Gif 2000" in
Paris).
hep-ph/9911307:
Introduction to Supersymmetry: Astrophysical and Phenomenological
Constraints. Keith A. Olive (67 pages, 41 figures; lectures delivered
at the Les Houches Summer School, July 1999).
hep-th/9910030:
Tools for supersymmetry. Antoine Van Proeyen (49 pages; Lectures
in the spring school in Calimanesti, Romania, April 1998).
hep-th/9809064:
Basic Canon in D=4, N=1 Superfield Theory: Five Primer Lectures.
S. James Gates, Jr (109 pages; 1997 TASI Lectures).
hep-ph/9709356:
A Supersymmetry Primer. Stephen P. Martin (102 pages).
hep-ph/9611409:
An Introduction to Supersymmetry. Manuel Drees ( 42 pages;
Lectures given at Seoul summer symposium on field theory, August 1996).
hep-ph/9601208:
Supersymmetry: From the Fermi Scale to the Planck Scale. J.
Lopez (61 pages, 11 figures), Rept.Prog.Phys. 59 (1996) 819-865.
OTHER Back
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hep-th/0110114:
Deformation Quantization: Quantum Mechanics Lives and Works in Phase-Space.
Cosmas K Zacho (22 pages, 2 figures).
hep-th/0205060:
Threebranes in F-theory. Alastair Paulin-Campbell (126 pages,
Phd. Thesis, accepted by the University of the Witwatersrand).
hep-lat/0201012:
Strings, quantum gravity and non-commutative geometry on the lattice.
J. Ambjorn.
hep-th/0110067:
Heterotic, Open and Unoriented String Theories from Topological
Membrane. Pedro Castelo Ferreira (122 pages, 34 figures, D.Phil.
Thesis).
hep-th/9806123:
Aspects non perturbatifs de la theorie des supercordes. B.
Pioline (PhD dissertation in FRENCH, 181 pages, 14 figures, appendices
not included).
hep-th/0111284:
Aspetti non perturbativi della Teoria delle Stringhe, G. D'Appollonio
(In Italian, University of L' Aquila ``Laurea'' thesis, October 1998).
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Black Hole
Entropy | Born-Infeld | Boundary
States
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| Compactification |
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D-branes | dS/CFT | Dualities
| Field Theory | Gauge Theories
| Holography
Little
String Theories | M-theory | Math
| Matrix Theory | Matrix ST
Noncommutativity | Non-BPS/Unstable
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