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Miscellaneous, or Not Yet Indexed
87: F Terms and D Terms in String Theory -- Dine, Seiberg, et al: 100+, 23p
86: Index Of The Dirac Operator In Loop Space -- Witten: 30p
92: Algebraic Structures and Differential Geometry in 2D String Theory -- Witten, Zwiebach: 100+, 65p
89: Comments on Conifolds -- Candelas, de la Ossa: 50+, 25p
96: Phase Transitions In M-Theory And F-Theory -- Witten: 100+, 30p
00: BPS Bound States Of D0-D6 And D0-D8 Systems In A B-Field -- Witten: 3+, 16p
91: 2D Gravity and Intersection Theory on Moduli Space -- Witten: 100+, 68p (NOT ARCHIVED)
97: Lectures on strings and dualities -- Vafa: 50+, 53p
--Mainly lectures on the basics of K3
Aspects of Gauge Theory - Gravity Correspondence -- Randjbar-Daemi, 20p
94: Summing the Instantons: Quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry in toric varieties -- Morrison, Plesser, 94p

Good Lectures
97: Fields, strings and duality -- Dijkgraaf: 152p
--Dijkgraaf is my string-pedagogy hero!!
96: Lectures on superstring and M theory dualities -- Schwarz: 100+, 65p
93: Lectures On 2-D Gravity And 2-D String Theory -- Ginsparg, G Moore: 100+, 230p
98: Basic canon in D = 4, N = 1 superfield theory: Five primer lectures -- Gates: 109p
96: K3 surfaces and string duality (TASI 96) -- Aspinwall: 100+, 107p
00: Compactification, geometry and duality: N = 2 (TASI 99) -- Aspinwall: 83p
94: Lectures on mirror symmetry -- Hosono, Klemm, Theisen: 45p
98: Lectures on D-branes -- Bachas: 50+, 60p
99: TASI lectures on non-BPS D-brane systems -- Schwarz: 38p
01: Komaba lectures on noncommutative solitons and D-branes -- J Harvey: 43p
95: Lectures on four-manifolds and topological gauge theories -- Dijkgraaf: 16p
--4-Manifold Geometry, Donaldson invariants, Seiberg Witten Theory
99: Lectures on supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and integrable systems -- D'Hoker, Phong: 125p


AdS/CFT: See Holography.

Background Independence
See also: String Field Theory.
92: Background Independence -- Seiberg, Shenker: 15+, 16p
92: On background independent open string field theory -- Witten: 50+, 18p
92: Computations in background independent off-shell string theory -- Witten: 16p
-- Shows that, while S_(string field) not= S_(world-sheet) off-shell,
---- the actions are equal on-shell if matter and ghosts are decoupled.

Black Holes
91: On String Theory and Black Holes -- Witten: 500+, 30p
93: String Theory and Black Hole Complementarity -- Susskind: 50+, 7p
93: Gedanken Experiments with Black Holes -- Susskind: 22p
94: Les Houches lectures on black holes -- Strominger: 50+, 70p

BPS States
75: An Exact Classical Solution For The 'T Hooft Monopole And The Julia-Zee Dyon -- Prasad, Sommerfield: 500+, 8p
76: Stability of classical solutions -- Bogomol'nyi: 500+, 5 p (NOT ARCHIVED)
-- The pre-SUSY origin of BPS bounds -- aka Bockner arguments. Very readable.
78: Supersymmetry algebras that include topological charges -- Witten, Olive: 100+, 14p
-- Topological charges, from BPS bounds, enter into the SUSY algebra as central charges.
95: The Moduli Space Metric for Well Separated BPS Monoples -- Gibbons, Manton: 50+, 12p
96: Algebras, BPS States, and Strings -- Harvey, Moore: 100+, 63p
96: On the algebras of BPS states -- J Harvey, G Moore: 50+, 43p
96: Type IIB Superstrings, BPS Monopoles, and 3D Gauge Dynamics -- Hanany, Witten: 300+, 46p

Bundles over Elliptic Fibrations/Curves
97: Principal Bundles on Elliptic Fibrations -- Donagi, 9p
97: Vector Bundles over Elliptic Fibrations -- R Friedman, Morgan, Witten: ?, 101p
97: Vector Bundles And F Theory -- R Friedman, Morgan, Witten: 100+, 93p
97: Principal G-bundles over elliptic curves -- R Friedman, Morgan, Witten: ?, 20p
98: Taniguchi lecture on principal bundles on elliptic fibrations -- Donagi: 17p
98: Notes on bundles on K3s -- E Sharpe: 10p
99: D-branes and bundles on elliptic fibrations -- Diaconescu, Romelsberger: 23p

CFT & Operator Algebras
91: Lectures on W algebras and W gravity -- Pope: 41p
93: Lectures on W gravity, W geometry and W strings -- Hull: 66p
88: Applied Conformal Field Theory -- Ginsparg: 175p

Chern Simons
87: Linear Multiplets And Super Chern-Simons Forms In 4-D Supergravity -- Cecotti, Ferrara, et al: 50+, 52p
88: QFT and the Jones Polynomial -- Witten: 1000+, 89p
89: Perturbative Aspects Of The Chern-Simons Field Theory -- Guadagnini, Martellini, Mintchev: 50+, 16p (Very Nice)
89: Operator Formalism For Chern-Simons Theories -- Labastida, Ramallo: 50+, 16p
89: Topological (Chern-Simons) quantum mechanics -- Dunne, Jackiw, Trugenberge: 50+, 12p
90: Self-dual Chern-Simons vortices -- Jackiw, E. Weinberg: 100+, 15p
90: Self-dual Chern-Simons solitons -- Jackiw, Lee, E. Weinberg: 100+, 50p
92: Chern-Simons gauge theory as a string theory -- Witten: 50+, 53p

D branes
95: Dirichlet-Branes and Ramond-Ramond Charges -- Polchinski: 1000+, 10p
95: Bound States Of Strings And p-Branes -- Witten: 500+, 22p
95: Evidence for Heterotic - Type I String Duality -- Polchinski, Witten: 300+, 18p
96: D-branes and Short Distances -- Douglas, Shenker, et al: 350+, 50p
96: Gas of D-Branes and Hagedorn Density of BPS States -- Vafa: 50+, 6p
98: Lectures on D-branes -- Bachas: 50+, 61p
98: Etudes on D-branes (Trieste Lectures) -- Cliff Johnson: 5+, 56p
00: D-brane Primer (pedagogical) -- Cliff Johnson: 20+, 222p

Derived Categories, ADE, and McKay
See also: Bundles over Elliptic Fibrations/Curves.
See also: Mirror Symmetry.
96: Algebras, BPS States, and Strings -- Harvey, Moore: 100+, 63p
96: On the algebras of BPS states -- J Harvey, G Moore: 50+, 43p
98: Extending mirror conjecture to Calabi-Yau with bundles -- Vafa: 7p
99: The Heterotic String, The Tangent Bundle, and Derived Categories -- Aspinwall, Donagi: 28p
99: Heterotic String CFT and A-D-E -- Witten: 10+, 23p
00: D-branes, Categories and N=1 Supersymmetry -- Douglas: 41p
01: Unitarity, D-brane Dynamics, and D-brane Categories -- Lazaroiu: 16p
00: D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds -- M Douglas: 18p
01: Some navigation rules for D-brane monodromy -- Aspinwall: 27p
01: Derived categories and zero-brane stability -- Aspinwall, Albion Lawrence: 25p

Discrete Torsion
96: Dirichlet Joyce Manifolds, Discrete Torsion and Duality -- Acharya: 22p
94: Orbifolds with discrete torsion -- Vafa, Witten: 50+, 34p
99: Discrete torsion and gerbes, I -- E Sharpe: 40p
99: Discrete torsion and gerbes, II -- E Sharpe: 75p

Domain Walls
82: Of Axions, Domain Walls and the Early Universe -- Sikivie: 6p, 100+
97: Domain walls in strongly coupled theories -- Dvali, Shifman: 8p, 100+
00: Self-tuning flat domain walls in 5d gravity and string theory -- Kachru, Schulz, Silverstein: 21p, 50+
99: Non-perturbative vacua in heterotic M-theory -- Donagi, Ovrut, Pantev, and Waldram: 8p
--Nifty discussion of standard model physics as obtained from heterotic M theory
00: Standard model vacua in heterotic M-theory -- Donagi, Ovrut, Pantev, and Waldram: 11p

Duality
95: Evidence for Heterotic - Type I String Duality -- Polchinski, Witten, 100+, 18p
96: Lectures on superstring and M theory dualities -- Schwarz: 100+, 65p
96: Four lectures on M-theory -- Townsend: 100+, 55p
96: Lectures on duality and string dynamics -- Kachru: 18p
97: Lectures on heterotic-type I duality -- Taylor et al: 14p
98: Heterotic/F-theory duality -- Donagi: 8p

Dynamics
95: String theory dynamics in various dimensions -- Witten: 1000+, 53p
95: Comments on String Dynamics -- Witten: 100+, 21p
95: Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions -- Horava, Witten: 500+, 26p
99: Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory -- Giveon, Kutasov: 100+, 291p

F Theory
97: From M-theory to F-theory, with Branes -- Cliff Johnson: 20p

96: Evidence for F Theory -- Vafa: 100+, 18p
96: Compactifications of F-Theory on CY Threefolds, 1 -- Morrison, Vafa: 100+, 23p
96: Compactifications of F-Theory on CY Threefolds, 2 -- Morrison, Vafa: 100+, 33p
96: Phase Transitions In M-Theory And F-Theory -- Witten: 100+, 30p
96: F Theory and Orientifolds -- Sen: 100+, 21p
96: Probing F-theory With Branes -- Banks, Douglas, Seiberg: 125+, 7p
96: F-Theory at Constant Coupling -- Dasgupta, Mukhi: 50+, 13p
96: F-theory duals of non-perturbative heterotic E(8) x E(8) vacua in six dimensions -- Candelas et al: 25p
96: From N=2 Strings to F and M Theory -- Ketov: 9p
96: F-Theory on Calabi-Yau Fourfolds -- Brunner, Schimmrigk: 28, 11p
96: An Orientifold from F Theory -- Blum et al: 50+, 7p
96: A Note on Orientifolds and F Theory -- Dabholkar et al: 10p
96: Orbifold and orientifold compactifications of F-theory and M-theory to 6D and 4D -- Gopakumar, Mukhi: 50+, 29p
96: F-theory orientifolds, M-theory orientifolds, and twisted strings -- Blum: 45+, 22p
96: A Comment on BPS States in F-theory in 8 Dimensions -- Johansen: 8p
96: On the Duality between the Heterotic String and F-Theory in 8 Dimensions -- Cardoso et al: 15+, 10p
96: Colliding singularities in F-theory and phase transitions -- Bershadsky: 20+, 15p
96: Unification of M and F theory Calabi-Yau fourfold vacua -- Brunner: 20+, 21p
96: Calabi-Yau fourfolds for M and F Theory compactifications -- Klemm, Yau, et al: 61p
96: F-theory, geometric engineering and N = 1 dualities -- Bershadsky, Vafa, et al: 50+, 15p
97: Probing F-theory With Multiple Branes -- Douglas, Schwarz, et al: 9p
97: M and F-Theory Instantons, N=1 Supersymmetry and Fractional Topological Charges -- Gomez, Hernandez: 5+, 11p
97: F theory Vacua in Four Dimensions and Toric Threefolds -- Mohri: 15+, 6p
97: Vector Bundles And F Theory -- R Friedman, Morgan, Witten: 100+, 93p
97: On 4D Compactifications of F-Theory -- Bershadsky et al: 50+, 40p
97: Orientifold Limit of F-theory Vacua -- Sen: 11p
97: F-theory, T-duality on K3 surfaces, and N = 2 SUSY gauge theories in 4D -- Hori, Oz: 14p
97: F-theory on K3 x K3 and instantons on 7-branes -- Bershadsky: 10+, 19p
97: Toric geometry and enhanced gauge symmetry of F-theory/heterotic vacua: Candelas et al: 25+, 38p
97: F-theory, SO(32) and Toric Geometry -- Candelas, Sharke: 11p
97: M-Theory Versus F-Theory Pictures of the Heterotic String -- Paul Aspinwall: 19p
97: Orientifold limit of F-theory vacua -- Sen: 13p
97: F-theory and linear sigma models -- Bershadsky, Greene, Johansen et al: 10+, 40p
98: Moduli in N = 1 heterotic/F-theory duality -- Donagi, Curio: 27p
98: ICMP lecture on Heterotic/F-theory duality -- Donagi: 9p
98: Prepotential, Mirror Map and F-Theory on K3 -- Lerche, Stieberger: 30+, 36p
99: New N = 2 superconformal field theories from M/F theory orbifolds -- Gukov, Kapustin: 5+, 34p
98: Heterotic String/F-theory Duality from Mirror Symmetry: Per Berglund, P Mayr: 63p
98: Toric geometry and F-theory/Heterotic Duality in 4D -- Rajesh: 29p
99: Stable non-BPS states in F-theory: 36p
99: Stability of vector bundles from F-theory -- Per Berglund, P Mayr: 8p
99: On the Heterotic/F-Theory Duality in Eight Dimensions -- Lerche: 33p (pedagogical)
00: Hyperkahler Quotients, Mirror Symmetry, and F-theory -- Park, Unge: 16p
00: Lie Groups, Calabi-Yau Threefolds, and F-Theory -- Aspinwall, Katz, Morrison: 24p
00: Warped compactifications in M and F theory -- B Greene et al: 29p
00: Codimension-Three Bundle Singularities in F-Theory -- Candelas, Diaconescu, Morrison, Rajesh, et al: 24p

Gauged Linear Sigma Models
95: Notes on (0,2) Superconformal Field Theories -- Distler: 30p
98: Kahler Cone Substructure -- E Sharpe: 22p
93: (0,2) Landau-Ginsburg Theory -- Distler, Kachru: 34p
95: Summing the instantons: Quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry in toric varieties -- Morrison, Plesser: 94p

Geometry in Gauge Theory
89: Topological Gauge Theories And Group Cohomology -- Witten: 100+, 59p
93: Lectures on 2-d gauge theories: Topological aspects and path integral techniques -- Blau, Thompson: 68p
95: Lectures on Special Kahler Geometry and Electric--Magnetic Duality -- Fre: 56p
95: SUSY Yang-Mills Theory And Integrable Systems -- Donagi, Witten: 100+, 46p
01: Cech, Dolbeault and de Rham cohomologies in Chern-Simons and BF theories -- Ivanova, Popov: 12p

Gerbes
99: Lectures on Special Lagrangian Submanifolds -- Hitchen: 32p
99: Discrete torsion and gerbes, I -- E Sharpe: 40p
99: Discrete torsion and gerbes, II -- E Sharpe: 75p

Gromov-Witten Theory and WDVV Equations
96: Equivariant Gromov-Witten Invariants -- Givental: 48p
98: Elliptic Gromov-Witten invariants and the generalized mirror conjecture -- Givental: 56p
00: On the WDVV-equation in quantum K-theory -- Givental: 12p

Holography and AdS/CFT
95: Particle Growth and BPS -- Susskind: 5+, 9p
97: Black Hole Entropy in M-Theory -- Maldacena, Strominger, Witten: 50+, 17p
98: AdS And Holography -- Witten: 1000+, 40p
98: AdS/CFT Correspondence And Topological Field Theory -- Witten: 15+, 33p
00: TASI lectures on the holographic principle -- Bigatti, Susskind: 57p

Instantons and Nonperturbative Effects
94: Sigma models and the ADHM construction of instantons -- Witten: 14p
95: Small Instantons in String Theory -- Witten: 100+, 22p
96: Non-Perturbative Superpotentials In String Theory -- Witten: 100+, 22p
99: World-Sheet Corrections Via D-Instantons -- Witten: 5+, 19p
00: Noncommutative instantons revisited -- Nekrasov: 24p

K theory
98: Type IIA D-Branes, K-Theory, and Matrix Theory -- Petr Horava: 100+, 32p
98: D-Branes And K-Theory -- Witten: 200+, 44p
99: Self-Duality, Ramond-Ramond Fields, and K-Theory -- Moore, Witten: 25+, 35p
00: E8 Gauge Theory, and a Derivation of K-Theory from M-Theory -- Diaconescu, Moore, Witten: 15+, 95p
00: Derivation of K-Theory from M-Theory -- Diaconescu, Moore, Witten: 10+, 16p
00: Overview Of K-Theory Applied To Strings -- Witten: 20+, 20p

Langlands' Duality
89: Conformal Field Theory, Triality And The Monster Group -- L Dolan, Goddard, Montague: 14p
96: The Monster Sporadic Group and a Theory Underlying Superstring Models -- Chapline: 14p
98: A modular invariant partition function for the fivebrane -- L Dolan, C Nappi: 26p
94: Affine Algebras, Langlands Duality and Bethe Ansatz -- Frenkel: 38p
95: Preverse Sheaves on a Loop Group and Langlands' Duality -- V Ginzburg: 89p
00: Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and commuting elements of Lie groups -- Thaddeus: 21p

M theory
95: String theory dynamics in various dimensions -- Witten: 1000+, 53p
95: Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions -- Horava, Witten: 500+, 26p
96: Strong Coupling Expansion Of Calabi-Yau Compactification -- Witten: 500+, 32p
96 Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary -- Horava, Witten: 500+, 28p
96: Phase Transitions In M-Theory And F-Theory -- Witten: 100+, 30p
96: On Flux Quantization In M-Theory And The Effective Action -- Witten: 50+, 17p
96: M Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture -- Susskind, Shenker, Fischler, et al: >900, 41p
97: Solutions Of Four-Dimensional Field Theories Via M Theory -- Witten: 300+, 43p
00: E8 Gauge Theory, and a Derivation of K-Theory from M-Theory -- Diaconescu, Moore, Witten: 15+, 95p
00: Derivation of K-Theory from M-Theory -- Diaconescu, Moore, Witten: 10+, 16p

Matrix Theory
91: The N matrix model and gauged WZW models -- Witten: 50+, 63p
91: On String Theory and Black Holes -- Witten: 500+, 30p
92: Lectures on 2D gravity and 2D string theory (TASI 1992) -- Ginsparg, Moore: 100+, 230p
93: A WZW model based on a nonsemisimple group -- Witten et al: 50+, 8p
95: Bound States of Strings and P-Branes -- Witten: 500+, 22p
96: M Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture -- Susskind, Shenker, Fischler, et al: >900, 41p
97: Another Conjecture about M(atrix) Theory -- Susskind: >200, 15p
97: Issues in M(atrix) Theory Compactification -- Shenker, Douglas, et al: 50+, 11p
96: T Duality in M(atrix) Theory and S Duality in Field Theory -- Susskind: 50+, 5p
96: Branes from Matrices -- Seiberg, Shenker, Banks: 100+, 17p
97: Strings from Matrices -- Seiberg, Banks: 100+, 18p
97: Matrix Theory -- Banks: 100+, 72p
97: Review of Matrix Theory -- Susskind et al: 100+, 45p
97: Why is the Matrix Model Correct? -- Seiberg: 100+, 9p
97: CFT of the Higgs Branch -- Witten: 100+, 27p
97: Discrete Light Cone Quantization, -- Susskind et al: 10+, 4p
97: Finite N Heterotic Matrix Models and DLCQ -- Susskind, Motl: 10+, 6p
97: Schwarzschild Black Holes from Matrix Theory -- Susskind, Fischler, et al: 50+,9p
97: Schwarzschild Black Holes in Matrix Theory II -- Susskind, Fischler, et al: 50+, 20p
97: NC Geom and Matrix Theory: Compactification on Tori -- Connes, Douglas, et al: 100+, 41p
98: Type IIA D-Branes, K-Theory, and Matrix Theory -- Petr Horava: 100+, 32p
01: M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory -- Washington Taylor, 56p

Mirror Symmetry
93: Spacetime Transitions in String Theory -- Witten: 6p
93: Computing the complete massless spectrum of an LG Orbifold -- Witten, Kachru: 34p
94: Mirror symmetry as a gauge symmetry -- Witten, Giveon: 11p
93: LG description of N=2 minimal models -- Witten: 27p
93: Computing the complete massless spectrum of an LG Orbifold -- Witten, Kachru: 34p
96: Mirror Symmetry is T Duality -- Strominger, Yau, Zaslow: 100+, 21p
98: Categorical mirror symmetry for K3 surfaces -- Bartocci, Bruzzo, Sanguinetti: 11p
00: Fourier-Mukai transform and mirror symmetry for D-branes on elliptic CY -- Andreas, Curio, Ruiperez, Yau: 47p
01: Fibrewise T-duality for D-branes on elliptic Calabi-Yau -- Andreas, Curio, Ruiperez, Yau: 13p
96: Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensional Gauge Theories -- Intriligator, Seiberg: 100+, 13p
98: Extending mirror conjecture to Calabi-Yau with bundles -- Vafa: 7p
98: Mirror symmetry on elliptic K3 surfaces via Fourier-Mukai transform -- Bartocci et al: 14p
99: Lectures on special Lagrangian submanifolds -- Hitchin: 32p
00: D-Branes and Mirror Symmetry -- Hori, Iqbal, Vafa: 35+, 106p
00: Homological Mirror Symmetry -- Kontsevich et al

N (Large N and 1/N Expansions)
78: Chiral Symmetry, 1/N, and the SU(N) Thirring Model -- Witten (KEK): 100+, 17p
98: Theta Dependence In The Large N Limit Of 4D Gauge Theories -- Witten: 30+, 8p

Number Theory
00: Calabi-Yau Manifolds Over Finite Fields, I -- Candelas, de la Ossa, et al: 75p
89: Membranes in String Theory, Trees, Weil Conjectures and Ramanujan Numbers -- Grossman: 21p (not arcvd)

Noncommutative Field Theory and Noncommutative Geometry
86: Noncommutative Geometry And String Field Theory -- Witten: 500+, 70p (NOT ARCHIVED)
95: Bound States of Strings and P-Branes -- Witten: 500+, 22p
97: NC Geom and Matrix Theory: Compactification on Tori -- Connes, Douglas, et al: 100+, 41p
99: Lectures on graded differential algebras and noncommutative geometry -- Dubois-Violette: 71p
99: Magnetic fields, branes and noncommutative geometry -- Susskind: 100+, 8p
99: String Theory and Noncommutative Geometry -- Seiberg, Witten: 500+, 100p
99: BRS Cohomology And The Chern Character In Non-Commutative Geometry -- Perrot: 10p
00: Noncommutative Tachyons And String Field Theory -- Witten: 50+, 10p
00: Hagedorn transition in NC open string theory -- Gubser, Gukov, Klebanov, Rangamani, Witten: 5+, 22p
00: Trieste lectures on solitons in noncommutative gauge theories -- Nekrasov: 65p (pedagogical)
00: Noncommutative instantons revisited -- Nekrasov: 24p
00: Generalized *-Products, Wilson Lines and the Solution of the Seiberg-Witten Equations -- Mehen, Wise: 10+, 10p

Quantum Cohomology
See also: Gromov-Witten Theory and WDVV Equations
93: Verlinde algebra and the cohomology of the Grassmannian -- Witten: 99p
95: Summing the instantons: Quantum cohomology and mirror symmetry in toric varieties -- Morrison, Plesser: 94p

Seiberg-Witten Theory and Donaldson Theory
94: E - M duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 SUSY Yang-Mills theory -- Seiberg, Witten: 1000+, 44p
94: Monopoles, duality and chiral sym breaking in N=2 SUSY QCD -- Seiberg, Witten: 500+, 88p
94: Monopoles and four manifolds -- Witten: 100+, 29p
95: Lectures on Seiberg-Witten Invariants (alg-geom) -- Akbulut: 26p
95: Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric-magnetic duality -- Intriligator, Seiberg: 100+, 44p
95: Integrability and Seiberg-Witten Exact Solution -- Gorsky et al: 100+, 16p
97: Introduction to S-Duality in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory -- Alvarez-Gaume, Hassan: 100+, 81p
--Pedagogical review of Seiberg Witten Theory
97: Integration over the u-plane in Donaldson theory -- Moore, Witten: 50+, 91p
97: Picard-Fuchs Equations for N=2 Seiberg-Witten Theories -- Isidro, Mukherjee, Nunes, Schnitzer: 24p
99: A-D-E Singularity and the Seiberg-Witten Theory -- Ito: 20p

String Field Theory
See also: Background Independence.
00: D-branes as tachyon lumps in string field theory -- Sen, Zwiebach, et al: 41p
00: Large marginal deformations in string field theory -- Sen, Zwiebach: 34p
01: Generalized Complexes and String Field Theory -- Lazaroiu: 31p

String Junctions and 3-7 in F Theory
96: Type IIB Superstrings, BPS Monopoles, and 3D Gauge Dynamics -- Hanany, Witten: 300+, 46p
96: Probing F-theory With Branes -- Banks, Douglas, Seiberg: 125+, 7p
96: Probing F-theory With Multiple Branes -- Douglas, Schwarz, et al: 9p
97: N = 1 dualities of SO and USp gauge theories and T-duality of string theory -- Vafa, Zwiebach: 15p
98: Self-Intersection Number of BPS Junctions in Backgrounds of 3- and 7-Branes -- Iqbal: 10p
98: String junctions and BPS states in Seiberg-Witten theory -- Bergman, Fayyazuddin: 18p
98: Large N limit of N = 2,1 field theories from 3-branes in F-theory -- Aharony, Fayyazuddin, Maldacena: 50+, 24p

96: D-branes and Short Distances -- Banks, Douglas, Shenker: 350+, 50p
96: BPS States on a Three Brane Probe -- Sen: 7p
97: Tensor Constructions of Open String Theories II: Vector bundles, D-branes and Orientifold groups -- Zwiebach et al: 11p
97: Results in supersymmetric field theory from 3-brane probe in F-theory -- Fayyazuddin: 11p
98: Exceptional groups from open strings -- Zwiebach et al: 50+, 28p
98: Open string-string junction transitions: Zwiebach et al: 33p
98: String Junctions for Arbitrary Lie Algebra Representations -- Barton Zwiebach et al: 60p
99: Stable non-BPS states in F-theory -- Ashoke Sen: 36p
98: Large N limit of N = 2,1 field theories from 3-branes in F-theory -- Aharony, Fayyazuddin, Maldacena: 50+, 24p
00: Duality and Weyl symmetry of 7-brane configurations -- Iqbal, Zwiebach, Hauer: 35p

SUSY and SUSY Breaking
78: SUSY Algebras with Topological Charges -- Witten: 100+, 14p
82: SUSY And Morse Theory -- Witten: 100+, 32p (NOT ARCHIVED)
94: Introductory lectures on low-energy supersymmetry -- Ramond: 36p
94: Simple Models for SUSY Breaking -- Intriligator, Seiberg, Shenker: 50+, 6p
99: Supersymmetric three-cycles and (super)symmetry breaking -- Kachru, McGreevy: 9p
00: Introduction to Global Supersymmetry (Course 661 Lecture Notes) -- Argyres: 234p
01: On Mediating Supersymmetry Breaking in D-brane Models -- John Brodie: 33p

Topological Field Theory
90: Mean field theory, topological field theory, and multi-matrix models -- WItten: 100+, 43p (NOT ARCHIVED)
93: 1992 Trieste lectures on topological gauge theory and Yang-Mills theory -- Thompson: 86p
94: 2d Yang-Mills theory, equivariant cohomology and topological field theories -- Cordes, G Moore, Ramgoolam: 50+, 246p
97: Lectures on topological quantum field theory -- Labastida, Lozano: 62p
98: AdS/CFT Correspondence And Topological Field Theory -- Witten: 15+, 33p
00: Unifying themes in topological field theories -- Vafa: 13p

Wilson Lines and Wilson Loops
82: Wilson Line In Finite Temperature Gauge Theories -- Weiss: 50+, 13p
82: Confinement, The Wilson Loop And The Gluon Propagator -- West: 50+, 14p
87: Heterotic Strings In Orbifold And Wilson Line Backgrounds -- Quevedo: 11p
88: The Area Law Of The Wilson Loop And Vacuum Field Correlators -- Dosch, Simonov: 100+, 15p
93: Partition function for the eigenvalues of the Wilson line -- Goksch, Pisarski: 14p

Witten Essays
88: Topological Quantum Field Theory -- Witten: 500+, 61p (NOT ARCHIVED)
89: Search For Higher Symmetry In String Theory (Classical Stringy Geometry) -- Witten: 18p
98: New Perspectives on the Quest for Unification -- Witten: 3+, 10p
99: Duality Relations Among Topological Effects In String Theory -- Witten: 15+, 33p


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