TY - BOOK AU - Kaul,Raj Kumar AU - Salam,Abdus ED - Workshop on Frontiers of Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings TI - Frontiers of field theory, quantum gravity and strings: workshop held at Puri, India, from December 12 to 21, 1996 SN - 1560726520 AV - QC174.45.A1 PY - 1999/// CY - Commack, N.Y. PB - Nova Science Publishers KW - Quantum field theory KW - Congresses KW - Quantum gravity KW - String models N1 - "The Workshop on Frontiers of Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings was held at Puri from December 12 to 21, 1996 at the Sterling Resorts."; "Dedicated to the memories of Professor Abdus Salam."; Includes bibliographical references and index; A Tribute to Abdus Salam / M. J. Duff -- New Era of String Theories / R. Ramachandran -- A Large-N Reduced Model as Superstring / Nobuyuki Ishibashi, Hikaru Kawai and Yoshihisa Kitazawa [et al.] -- Bringing Up a Quantum Baby / A. P. Balachandran -- Chern-Simons Theory, Knot Invariants, Vertex Models and Three-manifold Invariants / Romesh K. Kaul -- Duality and Topological Quantum Field Theory / J. M. F. Labastida and M. Marino -- 2d Gravity: A Progress Report / Jan Ambjorn -- On Finite Size Effects in d=2 Quantum Gravity / N. D. Hari Dass -- Graviton-Dilaton Cosmology / S. Kalyana Rama -- String Cosmology and O(d,d) Symmetry / Jnanadeva Maharana -- Space-Time Gravitational Physics of 2-Dimensional String Theory from the C=1 Matrix Model / Avinash Dhar -- Loop Variables and Gauge Invariant Interactions in String Theory / B. Sathiapalan -- Projective Structure and the Sugawara Representation / A. K. Raina -- Punctures in W-string theory / Suresh Govindarajan -- Orientifolds: The Unique Personality of each Spacetime Dimension / Sunil Mukhi -- Non-Perturbative Description of Orientifolds / Ashoke Sen -- U-Orbifolds and F-Theory / Alok Kumar -- Black Hole Absorption and T-Asymmetry From Strings / G. Mandal -- Black holes, Strings and Domain walls as Intersecting D-branes / Sudhakar Panda -- Why d-Branes Behave as Black Holes / Sumit R. Das -- Gyromagnetic Ratios of Black Holes and String States / M. J. Duff -- Entropy of Extremal Black Holes / P. Mitra -- On The Black Hole Unitarity Issue / Francois Englert -- Renormalization Group Fixed Points and Connections with Duality in Various Dimensions / Kenneth Intriligator -- Solution of the non-Abelian Gauss law and duality transformation for 3+1-d Yang-Mills theory / H. S. Sharatchandra -- Exact Solution For a Class of Calogero-Sutherland Type N-body Problems / Avinash Khare ER -