a ISBN 1-560-72652-0

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number QC174.45.A1

b Item number .F76 1999

a Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element Workshop on Frontiers of Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings

a Title Frontiers of field theory, quantum gravity and strings :

b Remainder of title workshop held at Puri, India, from December 12 to 21, 1996 /

c Statement of responsibility, etc R.K. Kaul (ed.) ... [et al.].

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Commack, N.Y. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Nova Science Publishers,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1999.

a Extent 311 p. :

b Other physical details port. ;

c Dimensions 27 cm.

a Title Horizons in world physics ;

v Volume number/sequential designation v. 227

a General note "The Workshop on Frontiers of Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings was held at Puri from December 12 to 21, 1996 at the Sterling Resorts."

a General note "Dedicated to the memories of Professor Abdus Salam."

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note A Tribute to Abdus Salam / M. J. Duff -- New Era of String Theories / R. Ramachandran -- A Large-N Reduced Model as Superstring / Nobuyuki Ishibashi, Hikaru Kawai and Yoshihisa Kitazawa [et al.] -- Bringing Up a Quantum Baby / A. P. Balachandran -- Chern-Simons Theory, Knot Invariants, Vertex Models and Three-manifold Invariants / Romesh K. Kaul -- Duality and Topological Quantum Field Theory / J. M. F. Labastida and M. Marino -- 2d Gravity: A Progress Report / Jan Ambjorn -- On Finite Size Effects in d=2 Quantum Gravity / N. D. Hari Dass -- Graviton-Dilaton Cosmology / S. Kalyana Rama -- String Cosmology and O(d,d) Symmetry / Jnanadeva Maharana -- Space-Time Gravitational Physics of 2-Dimensional String Theory from the C=1 Matrix Model / Avinash Dhar -- Loop Variables and Gauge Invariant Interactions in String Theory / B. Sathiapalan -- Projective Structure and the Sugawara Representation / A. K. Raina -- Punctures in W-string theory / Suresh Govindarajan -- Orientifolds: The Unique Personality of each Spacetime Dimension / Sunil Mukhi -- Non-Perturbative Description of Orientifolds / Ashoke Sen -- U-Orbifolds and F-Theory / Alok Kumar -- Black Hole Absorption and T-Asymmetry From Strings / G. Mandal -- Black holes, Strings and Domain walls as Intersecting D-branes / Sudhakar Panda -- Why d-Branes Behave as Black Holes / Sumit R. Das -- Gyromagnetic Ratios of Black Holes and String States / M. J. Duff -- Entropy of Extremal Black Holes / P. Mitra -- On The Black Hole Unitarity Issue / Francois Englert -- Renormalization Group Fixed Points and Connections with Duality in Various Dimensions / Kenneth Intriligator -- Solution of the non-Abelian Gauss law and duality transformation for 3+1-d Yang-Mills theory / H. S. Sharatchandra -- Exact Solution For a Class of Calogero-Sutherland Type N-body Problems / Avinash Khare.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum field theory

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Quantum gravity

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element String models

a Personal name Kaul, Raj Kumar,

d Dates associated with a name 1928-

a Personal name Salam, Abdus,

d Dates associated with a name 1926-1996.