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Title
String field theory : a modern introduction / Harold Erbin.
ISBN
3030653218 (electronic book)
9783030653224 (print)
3030653226
9783030653217 (electronic bk.)
303065320X
9783030653200
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 421 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-65321-7 doi
Call Number
QC794.6.S85
Dewey Decimal Classification
539.7/258
Summary
This textbook provides an introduction to string field theory (SFT). String theory is usually formulated in the worldsheet formalism, which describes a single string (first-quantization). While this approach is intuitive and could be pushed far due to the exceptional properties of two-dimensional theories, it becomes cumbersome for some questions or even fails at a more fundamental level. These motivations have led to the development of SFT, a description of string theory using the field theory formalism (second-quantization). As a field theory, SFT provides a rigorous and constructive formulation of string theory. The main focus of the book is the construction of the closed bosonic SFT. The accent is put on providing the reader with the foundations, conceptual understanding and intuition of what SFT is. After reading this book, the reader is able to study the applications from the literature. The book is organized in two parts. The first part reviews the notions of the worldsheet theory that are necessary to build SFT (worldsheet path integral, CFT and BRST quantization). The second part starts by introducing general concepts of SFT from the BRST quantization. Then, it introduces off-shell string amplitudes before providing a Feynman diagrams interpretation from which the building blocks of SFT are extracted. After constructing the closed SFT, the author outlines the proofs of several important properties such as background independence, unitarity and crossing symmetry. Finally, the generalization to the superstring is also discussed.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Digital File Characteristics
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PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 14, 2021).
Series
Lecture notes in physics ; 980. 0075-8450
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030653200
Introduction
Worldsheet path integral: vacuum amplitudes
Worldsheet path integral: scattering amplitudes
Worldsheet path integral: complex coordinates
Conformal field theory in D dimensions
Conformal field theory on the plane
CFT systems
BRST quantization
String field
Free BRST string field theory
Introduction to off-shell string theory
Geometry of moduli spaces and Riemann surfaces
Off-shell amplitudes
Amplitude factorization and Feynman diagrams
Closed string field theory
Background independence
Superstring
Momentum-space SFT.
