Basic Concepts of String Theory
The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in string theory. It is intended as a textbook in the sense that, starting from the basics, the material is presented in a pedagogical and self-contained fashion. The emphasis is on the world-sheet perspective of closed string...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Theoretical and Mathematical Physics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29497-6 |
Table of Contents:
- The Classical Bosonic String
- The Quantized Bosonic String
- Introduction to Conformal Field Theory
- Parametrization Ghosts and BRST Quantization
- String Perturbation Theory and One-Loop Amplitudes
- The Classical Fermionic String
- The Quantized Fermionic String
- Superstrings
- Toroidal Compactifications – 10-Dimensional Heterotic String
- Conformal Field Theory II: Lattices and Kac-Moody Algebras
- Conformal Field Theory III: Superconformal Field Theory
- Covariant Vertex Operators, BRST and Covariant Lattices
- String Compactifications
- CFTs for Type II and Heterotic String Vacua
- String Scattering Amplitudes and Low Energy Effective Field Theory
- Compactifications of the Type II Superstring With D-branes and Fluxes
- String Dualities and M-theory.