Download PDF INTRODUCTION TO SUPERSTRING THEORY by Elias Kiritsis

Sinopsis

String theory has been the leading candidate over the past years for a theory that consistently unifies all fundamental forces of nature, including gravity. In a sense, the theory predicts gravity and gauge symmetry around flat space. Moreover, the theory is UVfinite. The elementary objects are one-dimensional strings whose vibration modes should correspond to the usual elementary particles.

Content

1. Introduction
2. Historical perspective
3. Classical string theory
4. Quantization of the bosonic string
5. Interactions and loop amplitudes
6. Conformal field theory
7. CFT on the torus
8. Scattering amplitudes and vertex operators of bosonic strings
9. Strings in background fields and low-energy effective actions
10. Superstrings and supersymmetry
11. Anomalies
12. Loop corrections to effective couplings in string theory
13. Non-perturbative string dualities: a foreword
14. Outlook

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