Research report 2004 - Max Planck Institute for Physics
Strings and Brane Worlds: some Aspects of a Unified Theory of All Interactions
Authors
Lüst, Dieter; Blumenhagen, Ralph; Erdmenger, Johanna
Departments
Theoretische Physik - Mathematische Physik, Stringtheorie (Prof. Lüst) (Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst) MPI für Physik, München
Summary
In this article we discuss some aspects of superstring theory. After a short introduction of string theory as unifying quantum theory of all interactions, we introduce the socalled brane world models. These models describe the universe as 3- or higher dimensional brane, embedded into the 9-dimensional space of string theory. They offer many interesting possibilities to derive the standard models of particle physics from string theory.