Superstrings, Unifications and dualities
Joseph Kouneiher

TL;DR
This paper reviews recent progress in string theory and M theory, highlighting their potential to unify gravity with other fundamental forces through duality conjectures and gauge theory correspondences.
Contribution
It discusses how duality conjectures and large N limits of gauge theories may provide a more complete definition of superstring and M theories.
Findings
Advances in understanding physics near the Planck length.
Duality conjectures linking string theories to gauge theories.
Potential for a unified quantum theory of gravity and forces.
Abstract
I describe our understanding of physics near the planck length, in particular the great progress of the last four years in string theory. Superstring theory, and a recent extension called M theory, are leading candidates for a quantum theory that unifies gravity with the other forces. As such, they are certainly not ordinary quantum field theories. However, recent duality conjectures suggest that a more complete definition of these theories can be provided by the large N limits of suitably chosen U(N) gauge theories associated to the asymptotic boundary of spacetime.
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics · Geometric and Algebraic Topology · Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
