Lectures on Superstring and M Theory Dualities

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23 September 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9607201

Abstract

These lectures begin by reviewing the evidence for S duality of the toroidally compactified heterotic string in 4d that was obtained in the period 1992--94. Next they review recently discovered dualities that relate all five of the 10d superstring theories and a quantum extension of 11d supergravity called M theory. The study of p-branes of various dimensions (some of which are D-branes) plays a central role. The final sections survey supersymmetric string vacua in 6d and some of the dual constructions by which they can be obtained. Special emphasis is given to a class of N=1 models that exhibit ``heterotic-heterotic duality.''

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Published version: Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 55 (2), 1.

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