Supervisor: Bengt E.W. Nilsson,
email: bengt.nilsson@fy.chalmers.se
Possible topics for Master theses, 20p or 40p
String theory:
1. The role of 2 and 5 branes in M-theory
2. M-theory corrections to Einstein gravity in eleven dimensions
3. The relation between string/M-theory in anti-de Sitter spacetimes
and quantum conformal field theories on the boundaries
4. Theta functions and modular forms
5. Brane world scenarios: is the Universe a soliton?
6. The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the microscopic explanation in terms of strings
Quantum field theory:
1. Study of supersymmetric conformal quantum field theories in six dimensions
2. 't Hooft's 1/N expansion of Yang-Mills theory
General relativity and quantum gravity:
1. Detection of scalar gravitational waves in string-like theories
2. Quantum gravity from quantum groups
Astrophysics and cosmology:
1. Inflation
2. Inflationary scenarios from strings
3. Quasinormal modes; see the paper by J. Jing, gr-qc/0312079
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Master theses