Duality, spacetime and quantum mechanics

Physics Today

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 28-33

  Witten, Edward ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; GRAVITATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

BOSONS; FERMIONS; MONTONEN-OLIVE DUALITY; NON-ABELIAN GAUGE THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SECOND SUPERSTRING REVOLUTION; STRING THEORY; SUPERSYMMETRY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0031141581     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881616     Document Type: Article

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