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Superstring Dualities, Dirichlet Branes and the Small Scale Structure of Space

Michael R. Douglas

Abstract

We give a broad overview of superstring duality, Dirichlet branes, and some implications of both for questions about the structure of space-time at short distances.

Superstring Dualities, Dirichlet Branes and the Small Scale Structure of Space

Abstract

We give a broad overview of superstring duality, Dirichlet branes, and some implications of both for questions about the structure of space-time at short distances.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 18 sections, 9 equations.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Duality and Solitons in Supersymmetric field theory
  3. Duality and Solitons in Superstring theory
  4. Spectrum of superstring theories
  5. Effective Lagrangians for superstring theories
  6. $p$-branes
  7. Type I Ia
  8. Type I Ib
  9. Heterotic
  10. Type I
  11. Dirichlet branes
  12. Remarks on the relation to noncommutative geometry
  13. Physics of coincident branes
  14. Non-identical branes
  15. Short Distances in Superstring theory
  16. ...and 3 more sections

Theorems & Definitions (1)

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