Duality and Supersymmetric Theories Publications of the Newton Institute Series

This is a systematic introduction to electromagnetic duality and its generalizations. The authors are the leading figures in this exciting area of mathematical physics, and their lectures have been organised not only to link with each other but also to describe the fundamental ideas, the developments and some earlier work whose significance has become apparent. This will be essential reading for all those working in mathematical physics.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Particle physics and fundamental theory: introduction and guide to Duality and supersymmetric Theories David Olive, and Peter West; 2. Solitons N. S. Manton; 3. Nonlinear electromagnetic self-duality and Legendre transformations Mary K. Gaillard and Bruno Zumino; 4. Supersymmetric s-models in 2 dimensions Bruno Zumino; 5. Introduction to duality David I. Olive; 6. Supersymmetric monopoles and duality Jerome P. Gauntlett; 7. Seiberg-Witten theory and S-duality Tohru Eguchi; 8. Supergravity, Brane dynamics and string duality P. C. West; 9. Supergravity vacua and solitons G. W. Gibbons; 10. An introduction to non-perturbative string theory Ashoke Sen; 11. Lectures on D-branes Constantin Bachas.