String Theory and Quantum Gravity ’92. Spring School Workshop. PDF
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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS t <~ "~e! ~\ IIIITERNATIONAL ATOMIC UNITEO NATIONS EDUCATIONAL. SCIENTIFIC ENERGY AGENCY AND CULTURAl ORGANIZATION STRING THEORY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY •g2 Proceedings of the Trieste Spring School & Workshop ICTP, Trieste, Italy March 30- April10, 1992 Edited by J. Harvey, R. lengo K. S. Narain S. Randjbar-Daemi H. Verlinde World Scientific STRING THEORY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY •g2 This page is intentionally left blank INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS !lfmt\ I'~\ UNIT~ ~ IENNTEERRGNYA ATGIOENNACLY A TOM I!: NATIAONNDS CEUDLUTCUARTAIOLN OARLG, SACNIIEZNATTIIFOICN ~ STRING THEORY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY •g2 Proceedings of the Trieste Spring School & Workshop ICTP, Trieste, Italy March 30- April1 0, 1992 Edited by J. HaNey UniversityatChicaga R. lengo lcrp;s,ssA K. S. Narain 1crp S. Randjbar-Daemi 1crp H. Verlinde Princeton University lh World Scientific '..S ingapore • New Jersey • London • Hong Kong Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. P 0 Box 128, FlUrer Road, Singapore 9128 USA office: Suite 1B, 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK office: 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20 SOH STRING THEORY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY Copyright© 1993 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reseTVed. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form orb y any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording ora ny information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invensed, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of materials in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Oearance Center, Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA. ISBN 981-02-1342-5 Printed in Singapore by Stamford Press Pte Ltd v Preface As in the previous years, the 1992 Trieste Spring School included a wide range of topics of current interest related to Quantum Gravity and String Theory. Some interesting new developments had just taken place in the study of quantum black holes, where two-dimensional string inspired models had opened up a new way to penetrate into some of their secrets. A clear intro duction into the subject, as well as an overview of the recent work, was given in the lectures by J. Harvey and A. Strominger. Related topics were discussed in lectures by H. Verlinde, who discussed gravitational scattering at planckian energies, and G. Horowitz, who gave an exposition of the physical properties higher dimensional black holes and black strings in string theory. The miraculous world of N = 2 superconformal field theories was discussed in lectures by S. Cecotti, J. Distler and P. Candelas. Among the subjects covered in their lectures were, respectively, aspects related to topological field theory, properties of N = 2 sigma models, and mirror symmetry of Calabi Yau manifolds. S. Das and A. Dhar lectured about the remarkably powerful application of the matrix model techniques to the study of string theory in two dimensions, and A. Sen gave a clear overview of the current status and developments in string field theory. As traditional, the School was followed by a Workshop in which many other new developments received attention. This page is intentionally left blank vii Contents Preface v Lectures: Ising Model and N = 2 Supersymmetric Theories 1 S. Cecotti and C. Vafa The Dark Side of String Theory: Black Holes and Black Strings 55 G. T. Horowitz Some Recent Developments in Closed String Field Theory 100 A. Sen Quantum Aspects of Black Holes 122 J. A. Harvey and A. Strominger The One-Dimensional Matrix Model and String Theory 172 S. R. Das Gravity and Gauge Theory at High Energies 212 H. Verlinde = Notes on N 2 lT-Models 234 J. Distler Contributions: The W Geometry of Chiral Surfaces in Complex Projective Spaces 257 J.-L. Gervais On Physical States in 2d (Topological) Gravity 268 P. Bouwknegt, J. McCarthy and K. Pilch Dynamics of the Conformal Factor in 4D Gravity 286 I. Antoniadis Non-Relativistic Fermions, Coadjoint Orbits of W and = 00 String Field Theory at c 1 302 A. Dhar, G. Mandai and S. R. Wadia Simplicial Quantum Gravity 327 J. Ambj11rn, J. Jurkiewicz and C. F. Kristjansen viii Gravitational Scattering at Planckian Energies: The Eikonal and Beyond 338 D. Amati A Proposal for D > 1 Strings? 344 L. Alvarez-Gaume and J. L. F. BarbOn Differential Equations in Special Kahler Geometry 368 J. Louis = N 2 First Order Systems: Landau-Ginzburg Potentials and Topological Twist 390 P. Fre and P. Soriani STRING THEORY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY •g2
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