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Description:: The main subject of this thesis is scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM) and N=8 super-gravity theory (SUGRA). We study several aspects of the …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Wen, Congkao (creator); Volovich, Abastasia (Director); Jevicki, Antal (Reader); Tan, Chung-I (Reader); Marcus, Spradlin (Reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: string theory; scattering amplitude; Quantum field theory; String models; Supersymmetry
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation explores several approaches to quantum gravity, all of them adding some quantum features to an otherwise classical theory. The first part is about …
Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Abbott, Michael C. (creator); Lowe, David (director); Jevicki, Antal (reader); Spradlin, Marcus (reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: String Theory; Black Holes; AdS/CFT; Giant Magnons; Physics; String models
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Scattering Amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric gauge and gravity theories are remarkable objects which hold the key to understanding many interesting mathe- matical structures in these …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Nandan, Dhritiman (creator); Volovich, Anastasia (Director); Jevicki, Antal (Reader); Tan, Chung-I (Reader); Brown University. Physics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Scattering Amplitudes; String Theory; High Energy; String models
Language:: English
Collection:: Physics; Theses and Dissertations

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