Thirty years of Erice on the brane
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Author(s)
Duff, MJ
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
After initially meeting with fierce resistance, "branes", p-dimensional
extended objects which go beyond particles (p=0) and strings (p=1), now occupy
centre stage in theoretical physics as microscopic components of M-theory, as
the seeds of the AdS/CFT correspondence, as a branch of particle phenomenology,
as the higher-dimensional progenitors of black holes and, via the
"brane-world", as entire universes in their own right. Notwithstanding this
early opposition, Nino Zichichi invited me to to talk about supermembranes and
eleven dimensions at the 1987 School on Subnuclear Physics and has continued to
keep Erice on the brane ever since. Here I provide a distillation of my Erice
brane lectures and some personal recollections.
extended objects which go beyond particles (p=0) and strings (p=1), now occupy
centre stage in theoretical physics as microscopic components of M-theory, as
the seeds of the AdS/CFT correspondence, as a branch of particle phenomenology,
as the higher-dimensional progenitors of black holes and, via the
"brane-world", as entire universes in their own right. Notwithstanding this
early opposition, Nino Zichichi invited me to to talk about supermembranes and
eleven dimensions at the 1987 School on Subnuclear Physics and has continued to
keep Erice on the brane ever since. Here I provide a distillation of my Erice
brane lectures and some personal recollections.
Date Issued
2018-12-31
Citation
2018
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
The Leverhulme Trust
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11658v2
Grant Number
ST/L00044X/1
EM-2016-041
Subjects
hep-th
hep-th
physics.hist-ph
Notes
Based on lectures at the International Schools of Subnuclear Physics 1987-2017 and the International Symposium "60 Years of Subnuclear Physics at Bologna", University of Bologna, November 2018. Minor improvements and added references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/9611203