Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volume 2 (1998)

Number 6

Contents

Spin foam models and the classical action principle

Laurent Freidel and Kirill Krasnov

pp. 1183-1247

Branes at conical singularities and holography

B. S. Acharya, J. M. Figueroa-O’Farrill, C. M. Hull, and B. Spence

pp. 1249-1286

$D_k$ gravitational instantons and Nahm equations

Sergey A. Cherkis and Anton Kapustin

pp. 1287-1306

Heterotic string/F-theory duality from mirror symmetry

P. Berglund and P. Mayr

pp. 1307-1372

Type IIA D-branes, K-theory and matrix theory

Petr Hořava

pp. 1373-1404

Non-supersymmetric conformal field theories from stable anti-de Sitter spaces

Jacques Distler and Frederic Zamora

pp. 1405-1439

Kähler cone substructure

Eric Sharpe

pp. 1441-1462