ABSTRACT
A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose v
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Eleven-dimensional supergravity
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N = 4 remaining supersymmetry in a Kaluza-Klein monopole background in D = 11 supergravity theory
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The eleven-dimensional supermembrane
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The eleven-dimensional superfivebrane
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M-theory (before M-theory was cool)
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Intersecting branes and black holes
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M-theory and duality
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The Large N Limit of Superconformal The Large N Limit of Superconformal field theories and supergravity
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