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Title
Introduction to string theory / Sergio Cecotti.
ISBN
9783031365300 (electronic bk.)
3031365305 (electronic bk.)
3031365291
9783031365294
Published
Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxix, 828 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-36530-0 doi
Call Number
QC794.6.S85
Dewey Decimal Classification
539.7/258
Summary
Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and BIMSA, places particular emphasis on said mathematical background. The target audience for the book includes students of both theoretical physics and mathematics. This explains the books "strange" style: on the one hand, it is highly didactic and explicit, with a host of examples for the physicists, but, in addition, there are also almost 100 separate technical boxes, appendices, and starred sections, in which matters discussed in the main text are put into a broader mathematical perspective, while deeper and more rigorous points of view (particularly those from the modern era) are presented. The boxes also serve to further shore up the readers understanding of the underlying math. In writing this book, the authors goal was not to achieve any sort of definitive conciseness, opting instead for clarity and "completeness". To this end, several arguments are presented more than once from different viewpoints and in varying contexts. .
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Theoretical and mathematical physics (Springer (Firm))
Chapter 1. The Polyakov path integral
Chapter 2. Introduction to 2d conformal field theories
Chapter 3. Spectrum, vertices, and BRST quantization
Chapter 4. Tree and one-loop amplitudes in the bosonic string
Chapter 5. Consistent 10d superstring, modular invariance, and all that
Chapter 6. The Heterotic string: part I
Chapter 7. Toroidal compactifications and T-duality (bosonic string)
Chapter 8. The Heterotic string: part II
Chapter 9. Superstring interactions and anomalies
Chapter 10. Superstring D-branes
Chapter 11. Strings at strong coupling
Chapter 12. Calabi-Yau compactifications. Appendix.
