The Net Advance of Physics:

SUPERSYMMETRY AND STRING THEORY

General and Various + Black Holes and Solitons + Cosmological Aspects + Duality + Lower-Dimensional String Theories + Mirror Symmetry + Supergravity + Supersymmetric Particles (Higgs bosons, Sleptons, Gauginos) + Supersymmetric Unified Theories + W Strings + Other

GENERAL:

• Supersymmetric Quantum Theory, Non-Commutative Geometry, and Gravitation, by J. Froehlich, et al., 97/06:
• Non-Perturbative Dynamics in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, by M. Shifman, 97/04:
• An Introduction to Supersymmetry, by Manuel Drees, 96/11
• On Non-Perturbative Results in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories, by Amit Giveon, 96/11:
• Supersymmetry, Supercurrent and Scale Invariance, by Olivier Piguet, 96/11
• Weak-Scale Supersymmetry: Theory and Practice, by Jonathan A. Bagger, 96/04
• Low-Energy Supersymmetry, by Howard E. Haber, 95/10
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electro-Magnetic Duality, by K. Intrilligator and N. Seiberg, 95/09
• Introductory Low-Energy Supersymmetry, by Howard E. Haber, 93/06
• Closed String Field Theory: An Introduction, by B. Zwiebach, 93/05

BLACK HOLES AND SOLITONS:

• NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS: Black Holes in String Theory

COSMOLOGICAL ASPECTS:

• An Introduction to Supersymmetry, by Manuel Drees, 96/11
• String Cosmology, by G. Veneziano, 95/10
• NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS: Cosmology

DUALITY THEORY:

• General:
  • Duality for the Non-Specialist, by S. E. Hjelmeland and U. Lindström, 97/05:
  • Superstring Dualities, by John H. Schwarz, 95/09
  • Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electro-Magnetic Duality, by K. Intrilligator and N. Seiberg, 95/09
  • Superstrings on Curved Spacetimes, by Itzhak Bars, 92/10
• Special Kinds of Duality:
  • Electro-Magnetic:
    • Electric-Magnetic Duality and Effective Field Theories, by C. Gomez and R. Hernandez, 95/10
    • Electric/Magnetic Duality and Its Stringy Origins, by M. J. Duff, 95/09
    • Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electro-Magnetic Duality, by K. Intrilligator and N. Seiberg, 95/09
  • S-Duality and T-Duality:
    • Gaugino Condensation, Loop Corrections, and S-duality Constraint, by Kamran Saririan, 96/11:
    • On T-Duality and Supersymmetry, by Konstadinos Sfetsos, 95/10
    • T-Duality in String Theory, by E. Alvarez et al., 94/10
• Kinds of Fields:NON-ABELIAN
  • Strong-Weak Coupling Duality in Non-Abelian Gauge Fields, by Frank Ferrari, 97/05:
• Effective Field Theories and:
  • Gaugino Condensation, Loop Corrections, and S-duality Constraint, by Kamran Saririan, 96/11:
  • Electric-Magnetic Duality and Effective Field Theories, by C. Gomez and R. Hernandez, 95/10
• Topological Field Theory and:
  • Introduction to Seiberg-Witten Theory and its Stringy Origin, by W. Lerche, 96/11:
  • TASI Lectures on D-Branes, by Joseph Polchinski, 96/11
  • Notes on D-Branes, by Joseph Polchinski et al., 96/02

LOWER-DIMENSIONAL STRING THEORIES:

• Two Dimensional QCD is a String Theory, thesis by Soeren Koester, 94/08
• THE VIRTUAL REVIEW: Strings and Two-Dimensional QCD, by Washington Taylor, 94/02
• QCD and Strings in 2D, by Itzhak Bars, 93/12
• Two-Dimensional QCD and Strings, by D. J. Gross and W. Taylor, 93/11
• Propagation of Particles and Strings in One-Dimensional Universe, by Ivan K. Kostov, 93/04
• Introduction to 2d Gravity and Solvable String Models, by Emil Martinec, 91/12

MIRROR SYMMETRY:

• Phases of Mirror Symmetry, by Ti-ming Chiang and Brian Greene, 95/09
• Mirror Symmetry Constructions, by Per Berglund, 94/06
• Mirror Manifolds, by B. R. Greene and M. R. Presser, 91/10

SUPERGRAVITY:

SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLES:

• General and Various:
  • Supersymmetry at Present and Future Colliders, by Ralf Hempfling, 95/06
  • Low-Energy Supersymmetry Phenomenology, by H. Baer et al., 95/03
• Higgs Bosons:
  • Higgs Particles at Future Hadron and Electron-Positron Colliders, by A. Djouadi, 94/06
  • Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons, by F. Zwerner, 93/03
  • Detecting the Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons, by J. F. Gunion, 93/03
• Gauginos:
  • Net Advance of Physics Gateway Reviews, No. 2. The Nature of Dark Matter: Search for Wimp Dark Matter, by Kim Griest, 1996
  • Gaugino Condensation, Loop Corrections, and S-duality Constraint, by Kamran Saririan, 96/11:
  • Supersymmetric Dark Matter, by G. Jungman et al., 95/06
• Sleptons:
  • Supersymmetric Dark Matter, by G. Jungman et al., 95/06
  • Minimal Supersymmetric Electro-Weak Theory, by I. Simonsen, 95/06

SUPERSYMMETRIC UNIFIED THEORIES:

• An Introduction to Supersymmetry, by Manuel Drees, 96/11
• Weak-Scale Supersymmetry: Theory and Practice, by Jonathan A. Bagger, 96/04
• Low-Energy Supersymmetry, by Howard E. Haber, 95/10
• Minimal Supersymmetric Electro-Weak Theory, by I. Simonsen, 95/06
• Non-Commutative Geometric Methods Applied to Particle Physics, by A. H. Chamseddine, 94/10
• Kaluza-Klein Theory in Perspective, by M. J. Duff, 94/10
• Supersymmetric Unification, by V. Barger et al., 94/09
• Free-Fermionic 4d String Models, by I. Antoniadis, 93/07
• Introductory Low-Energy Supersymmetry, by Howard E. Haber, 93/06

W STRINGS:

• A Review of W Strings, by Peter West, 93/09
• Review of W Strings, by C. N. Pope, 92/04

MISCELLANEOUS (not yet sorted):

• Boundary Effects in String Theory, by Michael B. Green, 95/10
• (Perturbed) Conformal Field Theory Applied To 2D Disordered Systems, by Denis Bernard, 95/09
• Misaligned Supersymmetry, by Keith Dienes, 94/09
• Two Dimensional QCD is a String Theory, thesis by Soeren Koester, 94/08
• String Theory and Classical Integrable Systems, by A. Marshakov, 94/04
• A String Project in Multicolour QCD, by Vladimir Kazakov, 93/08

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