Physics 250 Term Papers

Please pick one of the topics below and write a short (no longer than 10 pages) report on it. You can also pick a topic not from the list, but please check with me first.

"STRING THEORY BEYOND THE PLANCK SCALE," By David J. Gross and Paul F. Mende, Published in Nucl.Phys.B303:407,1988

"Small Instantons in String Theory," by Edward Witten, [hep-th/9511030].

"Anti De Sitter Space And Holography," By Edward Witten, [hep-th/9802150]

"Branes within Branes," By Michael R. Douglas, [hep-th/9512077]

"CHIRAL RINGS IN N=2 SUPERCONFORMAL THEORIES," By Wolfgang Lerche, Cumrun Vafa, Nicholas P. Warner Published in Nucl.Phys.B324:427,1989

"GEOMETRY OF N=2 STRINGS." By Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa Published in Nucl.Phys.B361:469-518,1991

"Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy" by A. Strominger and C. Vafa [hep-th/9601029].

"Evidence for F-theory" by C. Vafa [hep-th/9602022].

"Exact Results for N=2 Compactifications of Heterotic Strings" By Shamit Kachru and Cumrun Vafa [hep-th/9505105].

"Evidence for Heterotic - Type I String Duality" By Joseph Polchinski and Edward Witten [hep-th/9510169].

"Heterotic and Type I String Dynamics from Eleven Dimensions" By Petr Horava and Edward Witten [hep-th/9510209].

"Nonperturbative Effects on the String Worldsheet." By Michael Dine, Nathan Seiberg, X.-G. Wen and Edward Witten, Nucl. Phys. B278(1986)769 [Science Direct].

"Nonperturbative Effects on the String Worldsheet II." By Michael Dine, Nathan Seiberg, X.-G. Wen and Edward Witten, Nucl. Phys. B289(1987)319 [Science Direct].