String Theory: From Gauge Interactions to Cosmology: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on String Theory: From Gauge Interactions to ... 19 June 2004: 208 (Nato Science Series II:)

by Boris Pioline (Author), Laurent Baulieu (Author), Eliezer Rabinovici (Author), Jan de Boer (Author)

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  Written with an emphasis on pedagogy, this is a collection of lectures delivered at the Cargese Summer School String Theory: from Gauge Interactions to Cosmology''. It discusses the gauge/gravity correspondence, superstring cosmology and cosmic strings, topological string theory and matrix models, and critical phenomena in statistical mechanics.