The World in Eleven Dimensions —— Supergravity, supermembranes and M-theory

----- 十一维世界超重力，超膜和M理论

ISBN: 9780750306720 出版年：1999 页码：526 Duff, M J CRC Press

ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERGRAVITY Introduction Supersymmetries and their representations Nahm 1978 Supergravity theory in eleven-dimensions Cremmer, Julia, and Scherk 1978 Search for a realistic Kaluza-Klein theory Witten 1981 N=8 supergravity breaks down to N=1 Awada, Duff, and Pope 1983 Compactification of D=11 supergravity on K3 x T3 Duff, Nilsson, and Pope 1983 Exact pp-wave solutions of 11-dimensional supergravity Hull 1984 N=4 remaining supersymmetry in Kaluza-Klein monopole background in D=11 supergravity Han and Koh 1985 THE ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERMEMBRANE Introduction Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity Bergshoeff, Sezgin and Townsend 1987 On the quantum mechanics of supermembranes de Wit, Hoppe, and Nicolai 1988 Multimembrane solutions of d=11 supergravity Duff and Stelle 1991 Open p-branes Strominger 1996 D-branes from M-branes Townsend 1996 THE ELEVEN-DIMENSIONAL SUPERFIVEBRANE Introduction Black p-brane solutions of d=11 supergravity theory Gueven 1992 Eleven-dimensional origin of string/string duality: a one loop test Duff, Liu, and Minasian 1995 One loop in eleven dimensions Green, Gutperle, and Vanhove 1997 Five-branes and M-theory on an orbifold Witten 1996 Covariant field equations of the M-theory fivebrane Howe, Sezgin, and West 1997 M-THEORY (BEFORE M-THEORY WAS COOL) Introduction Superstrings in d=10 from supermembranes in d=11 Duff, Howe, Inami, and Stelle 1987 Duality rotations in membrane theory Duff and Lu 1990 Unity of superstring dualities Hull and Townsend 1995 The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited Townsend 1995 INTERSECTING BRANES AND BLACK HOLES Introduction Intersecting M-branes Papadopoulos and Townsend 1996 Harmonic superpositions of M-branes Tseytlin 1996 The black branes of M-theory Duff, Lu, and Pope 1996 Intersecting M-branes as four-dimensional black holes Klebanov and Tseytlin 1996 M-THEORY AND DUALITY Introduction String theory dynamics in various dimensions Witten 1995 P-brane democracy Townsend 1996 The power of M-theory Schwarz 1996 Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions Horava and Witten 1996 M-theory: the theory formerly known as strings Duff 1996 M-theory as a matrix model: a conjecture Banks, Fischler, Shenker, and Susskind 1997 Solutions of four-dimensional field theories via M-theory Witten 1997 The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity Maldacena 1998