M-Theory| M-Theory |
In General > s.a. membrane.
* Idea: Fundamental objects are membranes of various dimensionalities
living in 11D, the max allowed by susy.
* 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 ht/98-in;
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-in;
Ohta PTPS(02)gq-in;
Polchinski ht/02-in.
@ Books: Duff 99; Kaku 00; Becker et al 07.
@ Conceptual: Castro ht/98;
Smolin ht/02 [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.
@ Topological: Alam PRD(99)ht/01;
Smolin NPB(06)ht/05 [quantization].
@ And string theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills: Green ht/99-in.
@ 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.
@ And quantum gravity: Smolin ht/00 [lqg
with supersymmetric and quantum group extension of SU(16)].
@ Other versions: Banks et al PRD(97)ht/96 [matrix
theory]; Horava 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-in.
Dualities > s.a. bianchi
cosmology; Orientifold.
* History: A natural,
older idea, caught on after A Sen's 1994 work; Used by Seiberg & Witten
for susy QCD.
@ I/II: Townsend PW(95); Mukerjee SA(96)jan;
Witten PT(97)may.
@ III: Dine ht/96-in;
Vafa ht/97-ln;
Olsen ht/99-PhD;
Becker et al 07.
@ Intros/reviews: Giveon & Rocek ht/94-in; Giveon & Porrati PLB(96)ht,
ht/96-in;
Polchinski RMP(96)ht;
Schwarz NPPS(97)ht/96; Álvarez-Gaumé & Zamora
ht/97-ln;
Ferrara ht/97-in;
Hjelmeland & Lindström
ht/97-ln;
Quevedo NPPS(98)ht/97;
Kouneiher ht/99-in.
@ 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
susy]; Borlaf NPB(98)
[geometry]; > s.a. duality.
@ U-duality: Lavrinenko et al IJMPA(99); Obers & Pioline PRP(99).
@ Phenomenology: Ibáñez hp/98-in;
Fendley ATMP(98)ht [in
condensed matter].
@ Related topics: Schwarz ht/98-in
[M-theory and large N limits of boundary gauge theories].
Cosmology > s.a. brane
cosmology [including ekpyrotic scenario]; cosmology;
FRW 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-in
[rev]; Arnowitt et al ht/03-in
[Horava-Witten]; Grigorian ht/06 [minisuperspace
models].
@ Accelerating cosmology: Wohlfarth PLB(03); Nojiri & Odintsov PLB(03)ht;
Townsend
ht/03-in;
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].
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