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Title: Institute for Theoretical Physics

Conference ·
OSTI ID:765571

String theory is the only serious candidate for a unified description of all known fundamental particles and interactions, including gravity, in a single theoretical framework. Over the past two years, activity in this subject has grown rapidly, thanks to dramatic advances in understanding the dynamics of supersymmetric field theories and string theories. The cornerstone of these new developments is the discovery of duality which relates apparently different string theories and transforms difficult strongly coupled problems of one theory into weakly coupled problems of another theory.

Research Organization:
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-98ER41073
OSTI ID:
765571
Resource Relation:
Conference: Strings '98 Proceedings, Santa Barbara, CA (US), 06/22/1998--06/27/1998; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jun 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English