Basic Concepts of String Theory
By: by Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, Stefan Theisen
Contributors: Lüst, Dieter; Theisen, Stefan; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 782
ISBN-13: 9783642294976
Subjects: Quantum theory; Mathematical physics; String Theory Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory Elementary Particles; Physics; Mathematical Methods in Physics
Description: <p>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.</p>
Table of contents: title: The Classical Bosonic String; title: The Quantized Bosonic String; title: Introduction to Conformal Field Theory; title: Parametrization Ghosts and BRST Quantization; title: String Perturbation Theory and One-Loop Amplitudes; title: The Classical Fermionic String; title: The Quantized Fermionic String; title: Superstrings; title: Toroidal Compactifications – 10-Dimensional Heterotic String; title: Conformal Field Theory II: Lattices and Kac-Moody Algebras; title: Conformal Field Theory III: Superconformal Field Theory; title: Covariant Vertex Operators, BRST and Covariant Lattices; title: String Compactifications; title: CFTs for Type II and Heterotic String Vacua; title: String Scattering Amplitudes and Low Energy Effective Field Theory; title: Compactifications of the Type II Superstring With D-branes and Fluxes; title: String Dualities and M-theory.