M-Theory| M-Theory |
In General > s.a. membranes.
* Idea: Fundamental objects
are membranes of various dimensionalities living in 11D, the maximum allowed
by supersymmetry.
* History: Proposed by Banks,
Fischler, Shenker & Susskind; Called the "second string revolution"
by E Witten, it has shown that the various types of string models are equivalent
forms of the same underlying theory; 1994, Ashoke Sen showed that some predictions
of duality are correct, and Seiberg & Witten applied duality to supersymmetric
QCD; Black-hole entropy has been derived; 1997, It is hoped that it will lead to
a new theory replacing quantum mechanics and general relativity; 2005, It is still
not known how to quantize the theory.
@ II: Witten PT(96)apr;
news Sci(97)jun [and black holes].
@ Intros / reviews: Duff IJMPA(96)ht,
ht/98-in;
Townsend ht/96-ln;
Banks NPPS(98)ht/97;
Bigatti & Susskind ht/97;
Nicolai JAA(99)ht/98-conf;
Bilal FdP(99)ht/97;
Di Vecchia ht/97-in;
Gauntlett CP(98);
Gibbons gq/98-GR15;
Li ht/98 [intro];
Duff SA(98)feb;
Taylor ht/98-ln,
ht/00-ln,
RMP(01)ht;
Schwarz PRP(99)ht/98 [and string theory];
Haack et al ht/99-ln;
Marolf gq/99-proc;
Ohta PTPS(02)gq-conf;
Polchinski ht/02-conf;
Schwarz IJMPA(10) [and superstring theory].
@ Books: Duff 99;
Kaku 00;
Becker et al 07.
@ Conceptual: Castro ht/98;
Smolin AIP(02)ht [as non-local hidden-variable theories];
Banks ht/03.
@ Covariant / world-sheet formulation: Smolin PRD(98)ht/97,
CSF(99)ht/98,
PRD(00)ht/99;
Ellis et al IJMPA(98)ht;
Sato IJMPA(09).
@ Topological: Alam PRD(99)ht/01;
Smolin NPB(06)ht/05 [quantization];
Addazi & Marcianò a1707,
a1802 [H duality with lqg].
@ And string theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills: Green LNP(99)ht.
@ And non-commutative geometry: Konechny & Schwarz PRP(02)ht/00
+ PRP(02)ht/01 [intro].
@ And quantum field theory: Demeterfi IJMPA(93) [quantum gravity];
Kazakov NPB(00)ht;
Dine ht/00-ln;
Calcagni & Modesto PRD(15)-a1404
[non-local quantum gravity, UV completion of 11-dimensional supergravity, and finite and unitary particle-field limit].
@ And quantum gravity: Smolin ht/00
[lqg with supersymmetric and quantum group extension of SU(16)];
> s.a. supergravity.
@ Other versions: Banks et al PRD(97)ht/96 [matrix theory];
Hořava PRD(99)ht/97 [as holographic field theory];
Smolin NPB(00)ht [Chern-Simons like],
ht/01 [and exceptional Jordan algebra].
@ Phenomenology:
Katz & Vafa NPB(97) [matter];
Bilal hp/98 [review];
Faraggi ht/02-proc;
Kane a1601 [M-theory is testable].
Dualities
> s.a. bianchi cosmology; Orientifold.
* History: A natural, older
idea, which caught on after A Sen's 1994 work; Used by Seiberg & Witten
for supersymmetric QCD.
@ I / II:
Townsend PW(95)sep; Mukerjee SA(96)jan;
Witten PT(97)may.
@ III: Dine ht/96-conf;
Vafa ht/97-ln;
Olsen PhD(99)ht;
Becker et al 07.
@ Intros / reviews:
Giveon & Roček ht/94-in;
Giveon & Porrati PLB(96)ht,
ht/96-proc;
Polchinski RMP(96)ht;
Schwarz NPPS(97)ht/96;
Álvarez-Gaumé & Zamora AIP(98)ht/97;
Ferrara ht/97-conf;
Hjelmeland & Lindström ht/97-ln;
Quevedo NPPS(98)ht/97;
Kouneiher ht/99-ln.
@ Scale factor duality: Di Pietro & Demaret IJMPD(99)gq [bianchi];
> s.a. duality.
@ Target space duality: Giveon et al PRP(94)ht;
Alvarez NPB(00),
NPB(00).
@ T-duality: Katz et al NPB(97)ht/96,
Gomez & Silva LNP(00)ht/99 [and supersymmetry];
Borlaf NPB(98) [geometry];
Plauschinn JHEP(14)-a1310;
Huggett SHPMP(15)-a1509 [significance, 'phenomenal' or observed space vs target space];
Bugden a1904-PhD [geometric and topological aspects];
> s.a. duality.
@ U-duality: Lavrinenko et al IJMPA(99);
Obers & Pioline PRP(99).
@ Phenomenology: Ibáñez hp/98-proc;
Fendley ATMP(98)ht [in condensed matter].
@ Related topics: Schwarz ht/98-conf [M-theory and large N limits of boundary gauge theories].
Cosmology > s.a. brane
cosmology [including ekpyrotic scenario]; cosmology;
FLRW spacetimes; string phenomenology.
@ General references: Billyard et al PRD(00)ht/99;
Banks ht/99,
ht/99-ln;
Easson IJMPA(01)ht/00 [rev];
Cavaglià CQG(01)ht [pre-big bang];
Kallosh ht/02-conf [rev];
Arnowitt et al ht/03-proc [Hořava-Witten];
Grigorian CQG(07)ht/06 [minisuperspace models].
@ Accelerating cosmology:
Wohlfarth PLB(03);
Nojiri & Odintsov PLB(03)ht;
Townsend ht/03-proc;
Teo PLB(05)ht/04 [no-go result].
Related Topics > s.a. black holes;
models of topology change; Octonions.
@ General references: Aref'eva et al CSF(99)ht/97 [chaos];
Hull JHEP(98) [various spacetime signatures];
Dine & Graesser JHEP(05)ht/04 [CPT, discrete symmetries].
@ Modified versions: Boya MPLA(06)ht/05 [F-theory, (2,10) signature];
Weigand a1806-ln [TASI lectures].
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