A first course in string theory
By: Barton Zwiebach.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
Subjects: String models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Basics. 1. A brief introduction ; 2. Special relativity and extra dimensions ; 3. Electromagnetism and gravitation in various dimensions ; 4. Nonrelativistic strings ; 5. The relativistic point particle ; 6. Relativistic strings ; 7. String parameterization and classical motion ; 8. World-sheet currents ; 9. Light-cone relativistic strings ; 10. Light-cone fields and particles ; 11. The relativistic quantum point particle ; 12. Relativistic quantum open strings ; 13. Relativistic quantum closed strings; title: Part II. Developments. 14. D-branes and gauge fields ; 15. String charge, electric charge, and particle physics ; 16. String thermodynamics and black holes ; 17. T-duality of closed strings ; 18. T-duality of open strings ; 19. Electromagnetic fields on D-branes ; 20. Nonlinear and Born-Infeld electrodynamics ; 21. Covariant string quantization ; 22. String interactions and Riemann surfaces ; 23. Loop amplitudes in string theory.