By Laurent Baulieu, Jan de Boer, Boris Pioline, Eliezer Rabinovici

String thought is our present top candidate for the unification of all basic forces, together with gravity, in a constant quantum framework. during this choice of lectures brought on the Cargèse summer time institution "String concept: from Gauge Interactions to Cosmology'', global prime specialists supply an up to date survey of the most recent advancements during this subject, together with the gauge/gravity correspondence, superstring cosmology and cosmic strings, topological string concept and matrix versions, physics past the traditional version and the panorama of vacua of string concept, conformal box idea and important phenomena in statistical mechanics. Many extra issues also are mentioned in shorter contributions through tuition contributors. Written with an emphasis on pedagogy, this quantity could be a useful source to scholars and specialists alike.

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