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    MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF STRING THEORY
    Proceedings of the Conference on Mathematical Aspects of String Theory
    California, USA, August 1986

    edited by S-T Yau (Harvard)

     
    Contents:
    • Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Path Integrals and String (B Hatfield)
    • From Polyakov to Moduli (J Polchinski)
    • Geometry of Quantum Strings (E D'Hoker & D H Phong)
    • BRST Quantization and BRST Cohomology (N Marcus & A Sagnotti)
    • Analytic Structure of Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories (P Nelson)
    • Geometrical Meaning of Currents in String Theory (O Alvarez & P Windey)
    • String Field Theory and the Geometry of Moduli Space (S Giddings)
    • String Theory Without a Background Spacetime Geometry (G Horowitz)
    • Holomorphic Curves on Manifolds of SU(3) Holonomy (E Witten)
    • Vertex Operator Calculus (I Frenkel et al.)
    • On Determinant Line Bundles (D Freed)
    • h-Invariant and the Index (I Singer)
    • Action Principles and Global Geometry (G Zuckerman)
    • Introduction to Moduli Space of Curves (J Harris)
    • Moduli Space of Punctured Surfaces (R Penner)
    • Geometric Complex Coordinates for Teichmüller Space (A Marden)
    • Asymptotics of the Selberg Zeta Function and the Polyakov Bosonic Integrand (S Wolpert)
    • Super Riemann Surfaces (J Rabin)
    • Divisors on Mg and the Cosmological Constant (M Chang & Z Ran)
    • Severi Problem: A Post-Mortem (?) (Z Ran)
    • Slope of Subvarieties of M15 (6 2/3 ≤ S15 ≤ 6 3/4) (M Chang & Z Ran)
    • Arithmetic Intersections (G Faltings)
    • Deformation Theory for Cohomology of Analytic Vector Bundles on Kähler Manifolds (M Green & R Lazarsfeld)
    • Topology and Geometry in Superstring-Inspired Phenomenology (B Greene et al.)
    • Yukawa Couplings between (2, 1)-Forms (P Candelas)
    • Three-Dimensional Algebraic Maniforlds with C1=0 and x=-6 (G Tian & S T Yau)
    • Hermitian-Yang-Mills Connection on Non-Kähler Manifolds (J Li & S T Yau)
    • Existence of Kähler-Einstein Metrics on Complete Kähler Manifolds (G Tian & S T Yau)
    • Smoothness of the Universal Deformation Space of Compact Calabi-Yau Manifolds and its Peterson-Weil Metric (G Tian)
    • Critical Phenomena (S Shenker)
     
    Readership: Mathematical and high energy physicists.
     


     
    664pp    Pub. date: Sep 1987  
    ISBN:   978-9971-5-0274-4(pbk)
    9971-5-0274-7(pbk)
       US$67 / £49

     


     

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