ABSTRACT

A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose v

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Eleven-dimensional supergravity

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Supersymmetries and Their Representations

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The eleven-dimensional supermembrane

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Open p-branes

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D-branes from M-branes

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The eleven-dimensional superfivebrane

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Five-branes and M-theory on an orbifold

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M-theory (before M-theory was cool)

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Duality Rotations in Membrane Theory

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Unity of superstring dualities

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Intersecting branes and black holes

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Harmonic superpositions of M-branes

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M-theory and duality

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P-Brane Democracy

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The power of M theory

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