String Theory And Quantum Gravity ’91 - Proceedings Of The Trieste Spring School And Workshop.

Contents:

• Spring School on String Theory and Quantum Gravity:
  • An Introduction to 2D Gravity and Solvable String Models (E Martinec)
  • String Theory in Two Dimensions (I R Klebanov)
  • Some Properties of (Non) Critical Strings (D Kutasov)
  • Topics in Liouville Theory (L Alvarez-Gaumé & C Gómez)
  • Black Holes and Strings in Two Dimensions (H Verlinde)
  • Supersymmetric String Solitons (C G Callan et al)
  • Introduction to W-Algebras (A Bilal)
• Workshop on String Theory:
  • Duality Invariant Effective String Actions and Automorphic Functions for (2,2) String
  • Compactifications (D Lüst)
  • Moduli Spaces and the Geometries of N = 2 SUSY (P Fré & P Soriani)
  • Transition from Critical to Non Critical String at High Temperature (C Kounnas)
  • Canonical Quantization of SL(2,R) Chern-Simons Topological Theories (C Imbimbo)
  • Singular Vectors in Virasoro Verma Modules (M Bauer)
  • Double Scaling Limit in O(N) Vector Models (P Di Vecchia)
  • O(N) Vector Field Theories in the Double Scaling Limit (J Zinn-Justin)

Readership: High energy physicists.

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