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String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction
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String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern
theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string
theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string
theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field
theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments,
including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string
geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle
physics, black holes in string theory and M-theory, and the microscopic origin
of black-hole entropy. It concludes with Matrix theory, the AdS/CFT duality and
its generalizations. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in
modern string theory, and will make an excellent textbook for a one-year course
on string theory. It contains over 120 exercises with solutions, and over 200
homework problems with solutions available on a password protected website for
lecturers at cambridge(dot)org/9780521860697
Table Of Contents
1. Introduction;
2. The bosonic string;
3. Conformal field theory and string interactions;
4. Strings with world-sheet supersymmetry;
5. Strings with space-time supersymmetry;
6. T-duality and D-branes;
7. The heterotic string;
8. M-theory and string duality;
9. String geometry;
10. Flux compactifications;
11. Black holes in string theory;
12. Gauge theory/string theory dualities; References
Index.
Product Details
* ISBN: 0521860695
* ISBN-13: 9780521860697
* Format: Hardcover, 739pp
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press
* Pub. Date: September 2007
* Edition Description: 1ST
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