Open AccessRecent Results in String Duality
Author(s) -
Joseph Polchinski
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
progress of theoretical physics supplement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0375-9687
DOI - 10.1143/ptps.123.9
Subject(s) - string (physics) , duality (order theory) , theoretical physics , string duality , string theory , non critical string theory , physics , string field theory , relationship between string theory and quantum field theory , string phenomenology , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , quantum gravity , quantum
This is a talk given at YKIS '95, primarily to non-string theorists. I reviewthe evidence for string duality, the principle that any string theory at strongcoupling looks like another string theory at weak coupling. A postscriptsummarizes developments since the conference.Comment: 11 pages, LaTeX with PTPTeX.st
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