Curved Spacetime Geometry for Strings and Affine Non-compact Algebras
Abstract
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Based on lectures delivered at (1) the AMS meeting at USC, Nov. 1992
(2) Conference on Quantum Aspects of Black Holes, ITP, UC- Santa %Barbara, %%June 1993.
(3) 25th Summer Institute, Ecole Normale Superieure, % Paris, Aug. 1992.
To appear in "Interface Between Mathematics and Physics", Ed. S.-T. Yau.
1--Itroduction to String Theory in Curved Spacetime
2--G/H Coset Conformal Field Theory and String Theory
3--Time, Space and Classification of Non-Compact Cosets
4--Heterotic Strings in Curved Spacetime as gauged WZW Models
5--The Spacetime Manifold and the Geometry
6--Examples in 2D, 3D and 4D
USC-93/HEP-B3, 34 pages, harvmac.tex
USC-93/HEP-B3, 34 pages, harvmac.tex