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We review the evolution of the second-quantized superstring, from its birth as a theory of the hadron bootstrap to its present status as a candidate theory of Quantum Gravitational Dynamics (QGD) and Super-unification.
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- Quantum Gravity
- Vertex Operator
- Open String
- Heterotic String
- Closed String
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Wolfson Chair Extraordinary in Theoretical Physics
Supported in part by the U.S.-Israel BNSF
Supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG05-85ER40200
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Ne'eman, Y. (1987). Strings: From hadron dual models to gravity, unification and the structure of space-time. In: García, P.L., Pérez-Rendón, A. (eds) Differential Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077321
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