Matrix theory

1997/10/31 by T. Banks, Tom Banks · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00130-3

published as Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 67 (1998) 180-224 · 72 pages, harvmac big, references added, typos corrected

arxiv created 1997/12/24 · openalex publication_date 1998/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2020/07/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This is an expanded version of talks given by the author at the Trieste Spring School on Supergravity and Superstrings in April of 1997 and at the accompanying workshop. The manuscript is intended to be a mini-review of Matrix Theory. The motivations and some of the evidence for the theory are presented, as well as a clear statement of the current puzzles about compactification to low dimensions.

Citations

• On gauge bosons in the matrix model approach to M theory
• Evidence for F-theory
• Zero-Brane Quantum Mechanics
• Entropy bounds and black hole remnants
• D-branes and short distances in string theory
• Two Dimensional Gauge Theories Revisited
• Elliptic Genera of Symmetric Products and Second Quantized Strings
• The World as a Hologram
• D-brane field theory on compact spaces

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