Applications of Non-critical String Theory To Non-perturbative Physics And Open-Closed String Duality
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I dedicate this thesis to my loving parents and sister. Acknowledgements First, I would like to thank my guide, Sunil Mukhi for his help and advice in both academic and non-academic matters. I have learnt most of what I know about string theory in particular and research in physics in general from him. In my discussions with him, he has always provided valuable insights which has helped me whenever I found myself struggling to understand a concept or solve a research problem. I have also benefitted from his belief that every problem has a definite answer and if you believe the answer exists then you will find it. Shiraz Minwalla, Sandip Trivedi and Spenta Wadia for all the help I received from them during my stay in TIFR. The thing I find amazing is no matter how busy they might be, whenever I have asked them some question about some problem they have taken the time to think about it and explain the issue to me. Other members of the theory group have also been very helpful. In particular I would like to thank Deepak Dhar, Mustansir Barma and Probir Roy for their help and advice. My collaborators Rahul Nigam and Ari Pakman have helped me with stimulating discussions when we were finding it difficult to solve a problem. I want to thank Debashis Ghoshal, Rajesh Gopakumar and Ashoke Sen for their help whenever I visited HRI. I had the good fortune to befriend a lot of students and postdocs in TIFR, not only from the theory group but from other departments also, and across all batches. Ashik, Punyabrata and Apoorva have always maintained a lively atmosphere in the student room, and Kavita always alerted me when I spent too much time with computers. Special thanks are due to Kevin Goldstein for introducing me to the wonderful Ubuntu linux distribution. My thanks are due to the DTP office staff, Raju Bathija, Girish Ogale, Rajan Pawar and Mohan Shinde who have helped me with any official matters. They have always been very friendly. I wish to specially thank Ajay Salve, our system administrator for his friendship and prompt help whenever things went wrong with the student room computers.
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