# List of string theory topics

This is a list of string theory topics.

## String theory

* Strings
* Nambu–Goto action
* Polyakov action
* Bosonic string theory
* Superstring theory
** Type I string
** Type II string
*** Type IIA string theory
*** Type IIB string theory
** Heterotic string
* N=2 superstring
* M-theory
** Matrix theory
** Introduction to M-theory
* F-theory
* String field theory
* Matrix string theory
* Nonlinear sigma model
* Tachyon condensation
* RNS formalism
* String theory landscape
* History of string theory
** First superstring revolution
** Second superstring revolution

### String duality

* T-duality
* S-duality
* U-duality
* Montonen–Olive duality
* Mysterious duality

### Particles and fields

* Graviton
* Dilaton
* Tachyon
* Ramond–Ramond field
* Kalb–Ramond field
* Magnetic monopole

### Branes

* D-brane
* S-brane
* Black brane
* Black holes
* Black string
* Brane cosmology
* Quiver diagram
* Hanany–Witten transition

## Supersymmetry

* Supergravity
* Superspace
* Lie superalgebra
* Lie supergroup

## Conformal field theory

* Two-dimensional conformal field theory
* Virasoro algebra
* Mirror symmetry
* Conformal anomaly
* Conformal algebra
* Superconformal algebra
* Vertex operator algebra
* Loop algebra
* Kac–Moody algebra
* Wess–Zumino–Witten model
* Monstrous moonshine

## Geometry

* Kaluza–Klein theory
* Compactification
* Why 10 dimensions?
* Kähler manifold
* Ricci-flat manifold
** Calabi–Yau manifold
** Hyperkähler manifold
*** K3 surface
** G$_2$ manifold
** Spin(7) manifold
* Generalized complex manifold
* Orbifold
* Conifold
* Orientifold
* Moduli space
* Hořava–Witten domain wall
* K-theory (physics)
* Twisted K-theory

## Holography

* Holographic principle
* AdS/CFT correspondence

## Gauge theory

* Anomalies
* Instantons
* Chern–Simons form
* Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound
* Exceptional Lie groups
** G$_2$, F$_4$, E$_6$, E$_7$, E$_8$
* ADE classification
* Dirac string
* P-form electrodynamics

## People

* Mina Aganagić
* Daniele Amati
* Amir Amini
* Husam Qutteina
* Nima Arkani-Hamed
* Paul S. Aspinwall
* Michael Francis Atiyah
* Tom Banks
* David Berenstein
* Jan de Boer
* Raphael Bousso
* Robert Brandenberger
* Curtis Callan
* Eugène Cremmer
* Atish Dabholkar
* Emilio Del Giudice
* Paolo Di Vecchia
* Robbert Dijkgraaf
* Michael Dine
* Jacques Distler
* Louise Dolan
* Michael Douglas
* Michael Duff
* Giorgi Dvali
* Sergio Ferrara
* Willy Fischler
* Daniel Friedan
* Rajesh Gopakumar
* Sylvester James Gates
* Michael Green
* Brian Greene
* David Gross
* Steven Gubser
* Sergei Gukov
* Alan Guth
* Jeffrey Harvey
* Petr Hořava
* Gary Horowitz
* Tasneem Zehra Husain
* Gary Gibbons
* Clifford V. Johnson
* Michio Kaku
* Renata Kallosh
* Theodor Kaluza
* Anton Kapustin
* Igor Klebanov
* Oskar Klein
* Juan Martín Maldacena
* Donald Marolf
* Emil Martinec
* Shiraz Minwalla
* Gregory Moore
* Luboš Motl
* Sunil Mukhi
* Robert Myers
* K. S. Narain
* Horațiu Năstase
* Nikita Nekrasov
* André Neveu
* Dimitri Nanopoulos
* Holger Bech Nielsen
* Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
* David Olive
* Hirosi Ooguri
* Burt Ovrut
* Joseph Polchinski
* Alexander Polyakov
* Arvind Rajaraman
* Lisa Randall
* Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi
* Martin Rocek
* John H. Schwarz
* Nathan Seiberg
* Ashoke Sen
* Suvankar Dutta
* Samson Shatashvili
* Steve Shenker
* Warren Siegel
* Eva Silverstein
* Matthias Staudacher
* Paul Steinhardt
* Andrew Strominger
* Leonard Susskind
* Charles Thorn
* Paul Townsend
* Sandip Trivedi
* Neil Turok
* Cumrun Vafa
* Gabriele Veneziano
* Erik Verlinde
* Herman Verlinde
* Edward Witten
* Tamiaki Yoneya
* Alexander Zamolodchikov
* Alexei Zamolodchikov
* Barton Zwiebach