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MEMBRANES AND OTHER EXTENDONS: CLASSICAL AND QUANTHUM MECHANICS OF EXTENDED GEOMETRICAL OBJECTS
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| By: |
Yuval Ne'eman, Elena Elzenberg |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
9810206305 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789810206307 |
| Publisher: |
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1995 |
| Series: |
World Scientific Lecture Notes In Physics 39 |
| Pages: |
188 |
| Description: |
This volume presents some of the results of research into membranes and higher dimensional extended geometrical objects. The subject is very promising, whether perhaps as a more comprehensive fundamental unification, or as a description of composite hadrons. |
| Synopsis: |
The interest in membranes and higher dimensional extended geometrical objects was inspired by the great successes of the string and superstring, first in 1968-73 as a theory of hadrons and then since 1984 as a "theory of everything" - a unified theory of all interactions, including quantum gravity. In particular, membranes, "supermembranes" and "spinning membranes" have been studied since 1985; an unexpected connection with supergravity opened in 1988 some new prospects for a quantized theory. General theorems about higher dimensional "p-branes" or "extendons" were also derived. The subject is very promising, whether as a more comprehensive fundamental unification or as a description of composite hadrons.Where there are now probably some fifty texts of all kinds dealing with strings, this is the first treatise on membranes and higher dimensional extendons. |
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Singapore |
| Imprint: |
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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