Introduction to superstrings and M-theory
By: Michio Kaku.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Graduate texts in contemporary physics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
Subjects: Superstring theories
Description: Superstrings and M-theory are provocative and controversial, but unarguably among the most interesting and active areas of research in current physics. Called by some "the theory of everything," superstrings may solve a problem that has eluded physicists for the past 50 years, the final unification of the two great theories of the twentieth century, general relativity and quantum field theory.

Now, here is a thoroughly revised, second edition of a course-tested comprehensive introductory graduate text on superstrings which stresses the most current areas of interest, not covered in other presentations, including four-dimensional superstrings, Kac-Moody algebras, Teichmuller spaces and Calabi-Yau manifolds, M-theory membranes and D-branes, duality and BPS relations, and matrix models. Prerequisites are an acquaintance with quantum mechanics and relativity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.