Basic concepts of string theory
2013
782 pages
Published in:
- Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
ISBN:
- 9783642294969
- Published: 2013 in Heidelberg, Germany by Springer
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Abstract:
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 strings and of open strings ending on D-branes, where two-dimensional conformal field theory is the main tool. Compactifications of string theory, with and without fluxes, and string dualities are also discussed from the space-time point of view, i.e. in geometric language. End-of-chapter references have been added to guide the reader intending to pursue further studies or to start research in the topics covered by this book.- string model: boson
- quantization: Becchi-Rouet-Stora
- field theory: conformal
- perturbation theory: higher-order
- string
- superstring
- compactification
- lattice field theory
- algebra: Kac-Moody
- operator: vertex
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