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Il capitano generale lagrimo per allegrezza e nomino quel capo: Deseado, perehe l'avevamo gia gran tempo desiderato. Antonio Pigafetta Il Primo Viaggo in torno al Mondo I would like to take some poetic license in introducing this volume in a way that seems appropriate for a country, like Chile, that Iooks to the ocean. I believe it was Heisenberg who compared different times in physics with sailing a ship. He said that most of the time we keep our ships in port, or in the protection of a bay. But on a few occasions we go into the open sea, and those occasions are really the great times in theoretical physics, when everything can change. It does not seem totally unwarranted to hope that we are now entering one of those times. In that spirit, I would like to mention a wonderful book, which in English would be called something like Chile, Or a Crazy Geography.
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1 Anomalous Jacobians and the Vector Anomaly.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Schwinger Model.- 3. The Method of Fujikawa.- 4. Redefinition of the Jacobian.- 5. Regulated Phase Transformations.- 6. Conclusions and Open Problems.- References.- 2 String Phenomenology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Gauge Symmetries and Global Symmetries.- 3. Space-Time Supersymmetry in String Theory.- 4. Conclusions.- References.- 3 Open Gauge Algebra and Ghost Unification.- 4 Algebras of the Virasoro, Neveu-Schwarz, and Ramond Types on Genus g Riemann Surfaces.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Bases.- 3. The Central Extensions.- 4. A String Realization.- 5. Quantization.- 6. The BRST Operator.- References.- 5 Quantum Groups, Integrable Theories, and Conformed Models.- 6 Small Handles and Auxiliary Fields.- 7 Differential Equations in Moduli Space.- 8 Consistent Quantum Mechanics of Chiral p-Forms.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Chiral Bosons—Classical Analysis.- 3. Chiral Bosons—Quantum Theory.- 4. Chiral p-Forms.- References.- 9 First and Second Quantized Point Particles of Any Spin.- 1. Introduction.- 2. More on the Extensions of the Mass Shell Algebra.- 3. Explicit Realizations.- 4. Light-Cone Gauge Quantization.- 5. Dirac Quantization.- 6. BRST Quantization.- 7. Second Quantized Theory.- References.- 10 Strings in Space.- 11 Covariantized Light-Cone String Field Theory.- 1. Motivation.- 2. Covariantized Light-Cone SFTs: Introduction.- 3. Light-Cone Gauge String Field Theory.- 4. From Light-Cone to Covariant SFT: General Procedure.- 5. Gauge-Fixed BRS-Invariant Action and Physical States.- 6. Another Gauge-Fixed Action: Siegel’s Original One.- References.- 12 Topology, Superspace, and Anomalies.- 13 Field and String Quantization in Curved Space-Times.- 1. Contextual Background.- 2. Fields in Curved Space.- 3.Strings in Rindler Space.- 4. Horizon Regularization in Rindler Space—Introduction of the s Parameter.- 5. Analytic Mappings and the Hawking-Unruh Effect in String Theory.- 6. Transformation between the States. Derivation of the Parameter ? from the Constraint Equations.- 7. Strings near Black Holes.- 8. New Approach to String Quantization in Curved Space Times 226 References.- 14 Symmetries and Anomalies in Fermionic Theories.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Quantization of Gauge Theories with Weyl Fermions (Or: Are Anomalies Anomalous?).- 3. Conformal Invariance of the Chiral Gross-Neveu Model.- References.- 15 Differential Algebras in Field Theory.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Yang-Mills Theories and First Quantized Strings.- 3. The Algebraic Structure of Local Anomalies.- 4. Lessons to Be Drawn.- References.- 16 Supermembrances, Superstrings, and Supergravity.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Nonlinearity. Absence of Weyl Invariance, and Nonrenormalizability.- 3. Classical GS Superstrings and Classical GS Supermembrances.- 4. Local ? Symmetry.- 5. Rigid World-Sheet SUSY.- References.- 17 Thirring Strings: Use of Generalized Nonabelian Bosonization Techniques.- 1. Introduction: Conformal Invariant String Theories in a Compactified Space.- 2. Bosonization and Fermionization in Conformally Invariant Two-Dimensional Field Theories.- 3. The Thirring Model and Strings.- 4. Vertices and String Theory.- 5. Conclusions.- References.
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