NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS 4 - WORKSHOP ON STRINGS, MEMBRANES AND TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORY

This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity in the thematic year 2015 "Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Strings, Black Holes and Quantum Information", and related events in the period 2014–2016.This volume especially contains an overview of recent developments in the theory of strings and membranes, as well as topological field theory.