Duality and the Unification of String Theory
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As the title says, I will first introduce the notion of duality and general procedures of testing dualities. Then I will discuss several important examples of dualities and use those examples to attempt a definition of M-theory, which can serve as the candidate for the unified theory. I also give a brief introduction to discrete light cone quantization (DLCQ), which could serve as a starting point of a possible future in-depth discussion of M-theory. In the last section, I highlight several references from which I benefit a lot.
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