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Coupling a Self-Dual Tensor to Gravity in Six Dimensions
A recent result concerning interacting theories of self-dual tensor gauge
fields in six dimensions is generalized to include coupling to gravity. The
formalism makes five of the six general coordinate invariances manifest,
whereas the sixth one requires a non-trivial analysis. The result should be
helpful in formulating the world-volume action of the M theory five-brane.Comment: 7 pages, latex, no figure
Some Properties of Type I' String Theory
The T-dual formulation of Type I superstring theory, sometimes called Type I'
theory, has a number of interesting features. Here we review some of them
including the role of D0-branes and D8-branes in controlling possible gauge
symmetry enhancement.Comment: 10 pages; Submitted to a volume in memory of Yuri Golfand; v2:
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Some Recent Progress in AdS/CFT
Much of modern string theory research concerns AdS/CFT duality, or more
generally, gauge/gravity duality. The main subjects are a) Testing and
understanding such dualities by exploring how they work for systems with a lot
of supersymmetry b) Constructing and exploring approximate string theory duals
of QCD c) Applying gauge/gravity duality to other areas of physics such as
condensed matter and nuclear physics. I will briefly discuss the first topic.Comment: 13 pages; Contribution to the proceedings of a symposium celebrating
the 80th birthday of Murray Gell-Man
Recent Progress in AdS/CFT
The study of AdS/CFT (or gauge/gravity) duality has been one of the most
active and illuminating areas of research in string theory over the past
decade. The scope of its relevance and the insights it is providing seem to be
ever expanding. In this talk I briefly describe some of the attempts to explore
how the duality works for maximally supersymmetric systems.Comment: 11 page
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