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The Birth of String Theory Edited by Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo and Paolo Di Vecchia Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19790-8 - The Birth of String Theory Edited by Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo and Paolo Di Vecchia Index More information Index Abrikosov–Nielsen–Olesen vortex, 267, 544 anticommuting variables, 195, 335, 338, 351, action 364–370, 376, 380, 381–384, 395, 409, 416, bosonic string, 586–589 435, 606, 611, 614, 617 Nambu–Goto, 30, 31, 156, 171–172, 230–231, Arvis, Jean-Franc¸ois, 432 238, 250, 251, 266, 280, 285, 298, 305, 369, Aspen Center for Physics, 52, 54, 184, 185, 186, 255, 409, 410, 414, 442, 443, 445, 447, 448, 451, 256, 280, 355, 356, 357, 364, 386, 479, 500, 460, 478, 479, 484, 486, 527, 587, 604 532, 533, 534, 536, 538 quadratic, 171, 238, 443, 590, 604 asymptotic freedom, 38, 199, 239, 256, 352, 356, 428, σ-model, 50, 316, 321, 442–443, 485, 518, 519, 431, 529, 544, 548, 572 538, 546 Atiyah, Michael, 257 point particle, 228–230, 486–487, 586–587 superstring Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula, 162, 601 Green–Schwarz, 517–518, 535–536 Balachandran, Aiyalam P., 212, 361, 374 quadratic, 44, 342, 409, 434, 443, 485, 605, 613 Bardakci, Korkut, 25, 182, 196, 214, 332, 344, 349, σ-model, 442–444, 474–481, 484–488, 518, 546, 375, 376, 384, 393–404, 564 588 Bardeen, William A., 54, 536 supersymmetric point particle, 442 Bars, Itzhak, 355 Ademollo et al. collaboration, 200, 205, 208–212, Becchi, Carlo M., 520 216, 289, 332, 450–454 Becchi–Rouet–Stora–Tyutin quantization, see Ademollo, Marco, 100–115, 174, 216, 450 quantization, BRST Adler, Stephen L., 573 Bekenstein, Jacob D., 560 Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomaly, see chiral anomaly Belavin, Alexander A., 394, 403, 547, 549, 556, ADONE, at Frascati INFN laboratories, 173 563 AdS spacetime, 561, 562 Berezinsky, Vadim, 544 AdS/CFT correspondence, 48, 55, 98, 119, 198, 200, Bergmann, Peter G., 361 222, 312, 322, 323, 432, 536, 548, 549, Berkeley, University of California, 4, 25, 38, 39, 43, 561–563 173, 181, 185, 195, 198, 246, 256, 312, 313, affine Lie algebra, 344–345, 375, 396–399, 556, 563, 346, 347, 357, 376 564 beta function, 24, 40, 114, 137, 268, 278, 314, Aharonov, Yakir, 262 579–581 Alessandrini, Victor, 191, 239, 253, 289, 347, 414 Bethe–Salpeter equation, 122, 459 Alvarez, Orlando, 432 Bianchi, Massimo, 565 Alvarez-Gaume,´ Luis, 54, 523, 524, 554 Bjorken, James D., 31, 118, 431 Amati, Daniele, 4, 65, 191–192, 198, 199, 239, 240, Black Hole entropy, 559–561 241, 245, 253, 256, 288, 347, 349, 353, 355, Block–Nordsieck approximation, 172 357, 373, 407, 408, 411, 474, 478, 490, 560 bootstrap, see Chew–Frautschi bootstrap approach amplitude, see scattering amplitude bosonic sector, see Neveu–Schwarz sector anomaly, see chiral anomaly, conformal anomaly bosonization, 398, 400–402, 536 anti de Sitter spacetime, see AdS spacetime Bouchiat, Claude, 191, 373, 408, 454, 490, 491, 492, anti de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, 496 see AdS/CFT correspondence boundary conditions, 224, 226 626 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19790-8 - The Birth of String Theory Edited by Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo and Paolo Di Vecchia Index More information Index 627 Dirichlet, 225, 226, 289, 290, 388, 530, 531 Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 559 Neumann, 91, 226, 228, 300, 301, 315, 388, 556, Chang, Lay N., 280 590 Chapline, George F., 524 periodic, 226, 556, 564 Chern–Simons theory, 566, 567 twisted, see also supersymmetry breaking, 348, Chew, Geoffrey F., 20–22, 38, 67, 91, 104, 117, 118, 441, 476 276, 277, 313, 346 brane, see Dirichlet brane Chew–Frautschi bootstrap approach, 39, 68, 68, 91, Breit–Wigner amplitude, 91, 92–93, 95, 98, 278, 313, 96, 117, 129–130, 194, 203, 565, 579 577–578 exact solution, 565–566 Brink, Lars, 9, 11, 45, 51, 53, 216, 253, 273, 349, 350, Chicago, University of, 4, 276, 353, 363, 369 355, 384, 442, 450, 474–482, 484, 486, 487, chiral anomaly, see also fermion, chiral, 52–54, 407, 498, 513, 529, 534, 593 521–522, 554 Brink–Di Vecchia–Howe–Deser–Zumino action, see cancellation, 521–525, 554–555 action, σ -model Green–Schwarz cancellation mechanism, 31, Brookhaven National Laboratories, 193 54–55, 119, 357, 468, 522–525, 534–538, Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism, see Higgs 555 mechanism chiral symmetry, 572 Brower, Richard C., 45, 76, 169, 241–249, 288, 298, Ciafaloni, Marcello, 560 312–323, 349, 393 City College, see NYU BRST quantization, see quantization, BRST Clavelli, Louis, 187, 193–197, 200, 280, 349, 363, 370, 374, 381 Cabibbo angle, 101, 570 Coleman, Sydney R., 245 Cabibbo, Nicola, 569, 570 Collins, Peter V., 380 Calabi–Yau compactification, 55, 525, 539, Collop, David, 379 556 compactification, see Kaluza–Klein compactification California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, see confinement, 431 Caltech conformal Callan, Curtis, 245 algebra, see Virasoro algebra Callan–Treiman relation, 104 anomaly, 166, 252, 303, 519, 520, 594 Caltech, 4, 45, 47, 51, 52, 129, 173, 389, 480, dimension, 149 481, 498, 500, 501, 503, 533, 534, 536, factor, 519, 520 538 field theory, 149, 394–403, 549, 556, 563, 564, Campbell, David, 379 565 Candelas, Philip, 55, 525, 539, 555 gauge, see gauge choice, conformal Caneschi, Luca, 27, 215, 349 invariance, 46, 145–147, 166–169, 171, 182, 185, Cappelli, Andrea, 564 192, 215, 223, 237, 264, 271, 285–288, 298, Capri, NATO Summer School, 434 302–306, 317–321, 322, 364, 369, 381, Cardy, John L., 379, 382, 564 394–403, 408, 461, 462, 533, 544, 547–549, Carlitz, Robert, 529 589, 590, 598, 600, 604 Casimir minimal models, 547, 563, 564 energy, 449 primary field, see vertex operator invariant, 398, 538 representation, 166, 381, 389, 397, 403, 415, 556, central charge, see central extension 563 central extension, see also affine Lie algebra, 27, Corrigan, Edward, 12, 253–255, 289, 290, 339, 348, 43, 102, 147, 150, 166, 298, 316, 320, 322, 350, 355, 378–390, 414, 415, 478, 529 339, 341, 344, 358, 367, 380, 394, 395, 397, coset construction, see also affine Lie algebra, 357, 400, 401, 402, 448, 512, 519, 520, 563, 399–400 609 counterterms, see also renormalization, 481, 497, 532 CERN, 4, 45, 52, 65, 88, 191, 193, 198–199, 216, Courant Institute, 407 239–256, 273, 288, 316, 346–357, 382, 389, covariance, see also Lorentz invariance, 53–54, 146, 393, 410, 411, 436, 450, 468, 470, 475–479, 149, 164, 209, 228, 237, 250–253, 285, 299, 490–491, 498, 501, 504, 529, 532, 553 302, 306, 307, 365, 394, 396, 439, 452, 463, CFT, see conformal field theory 465, 488, 533, 535–536, 537, 547 Chan, Hong-Mo, 214, 284, 331, 333, 347, 349, 393, CP factors, see Chan–Paton factors 414 Cremmer, Eugene,` 223, 349, 355, 411, 423, 454, 455, Chan–Paton factors, 40, 47, 160, 186, 331, 333–334, 490–494, 498, 500, 502, 511, 513, 514 395, 424, 425 Creutz, Michael, 431 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19790-8 - The Birth of String Theory Edited by Andrea Cappelli, Elena Castellani, Filippo Colomo and Paolo Di Vecchia Index More information 628 Index critical dimension Dirac–Ramond equation, 43, 336, 367, 368, 369 bosonic string, 30, 42, 45, 48, 142, 143, 144, 145, Dirichlet brane, 49, 52, 200, 290, 370, 432, 440, 442, 147, 171, 172, 196, 199, 234, 246, 247, 249, 469, 504, 527, 529, 530, 531, 548–549, 251, 254, 273, 290, 298, 302, 320, 332, 375, 556–557, 559, 561, 565 449, 464, 488, 520, 530, 582, 583 dispersion relation, 106, 117, 276, 277, 283, 407, 459, superstring, 45, 127, 210, 247, 253, 255, 298, 332, 575, 576 341, 388, 449, 453, 455, 610 divergences, see also renormalization, 241, 275, 303, crossing symmetry, see scattering amplitude 307, 323, 363, 373, 374, 429, 430, 452, 475, current algebra, see also affine Lie algebra, 46, 90, 497, 498, 499, 512, 514, 525, 534, 535, 593 102–109, 174, 208, 323, 332, 334, 335, 379, Dolen, R., 8, 95 393–403, 475, 528, 547, 569–573 Dolen–Horn–Schmid duality, 22, 24, 29, 68, 77, 91, curvature tensor 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 108, 118, 123, 130, 142, Ricci, 538, 556 157, 180, 181, 204, 208, 277, 313, 366, 528, Riemann, 624 581, 582 Cushing, James T., 67 Dothan, Joe, 23 Cutkosky rules, 239 DRM, see model, dual resonance DRM amplitude, see also Koba–Nielsen amplitude, D’Adda, Alessandro, 174, 205, 216, 450 Veneziano amplitude, 43, 137–143, 157, D’Auria, Riccardo, 174, 205, 216, 450 158–163, 210, 238, 249, 294, 296, 451, D-brane, see Dirichlet brane 600–602 Dahmen, Hans, 23 Drummond, Ian, 240, 379, 390, 415 Dalitz, Richard, 119, 347 duality, 27, 28, 39, 40, 42, 104, 110–112, 122, 158, DAMTP, 239, 250, 346, 357, 379, 416, 502, 539 181, 236, 264, 278, 284, 347, 379, 460, 491, Dancoff, Sidney M., 116 498, 528, 529 Dashen, Roger, 245, 256 among string theories, see superstring dualities David, Franc¸ois, 547 diagram, 31, 97, 98, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, DDF states, 27, 30, 152, 169–170, 234, 244–247, 249, 144, 159, 191, 214, 276, 286, 333, 351 256, 298, 317–321, 350, 353, 597 planar, see also Dolen–Horn–Schmid duality, 139, De Alfaro, Vittorio, 107, 214 182, 460 De Sitter spacetime, 549 self-dual fields, equations, 545, 549 Del Giudice, Emilio, 9, 76, 152, 173, 205, 216, 234, T-type, 53, 493, 500 317, 337, 352, 450 Duff, Michael J., 514 Del Giudice–Di Vecchia–Fubini operators, see DDF Durham University, 240, 246, 253, 254, 256, 284, states 349, 356, 384, 385, 389, 416, 480 Della Selva, Angelo, 215 Durhuus, Bergfin, 488 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Dynkin index, 397 Physics, Cambridge UK, see DAMTP Dyson, Freeman, 116 Deser, Stanley, 50, 442, 445, 486 DeWitt, Bryce, 477 Ecole´ Normale Superieure,´ Paris, see ENS and DHS duality,
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