A primer on string theory

✍ Scribed by Volker Schomerus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
1. Historical introduction and overview
Part I. Strings in Flat Backgrounds: 2. The classical closed bosonic string
3. Free bosonic quantum field theory
4. Covariant quantization
5. Light-cone quantization
6. Branes and quantization of open strings
7. Open strings and gauge theory
8. Free fermionic quantum field theory
9. Supersymmetry in ten dimensions
10. Construction of type IIA/B superstrings
11. Branes in type II superstring theory
12. Construction of heterotic superstrings
Part II. Strings in Curved Backgrounds: 13. Introduction to conformal field theory
14. Modular invariants and orbifolds
15. Closed strings on the 3-sphere
16. Calabi-Yau spaces
17. Calabi-Yau compactifications
18. String dualities
19. Gauge/string dualities
20. AdS/CFT correspondence
Bibliography
Index.

✦ Subjects

String models;Superstring theories

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