Aimed at graduate students, this book benefits from the author's research expertise and extensive teaching experience, introducing string theory in a concise and accessible manner. It covers the fundamentals of string theory, outlines key concepts in detail, and provides exercises to consolidate readers' understanding.
Aimed at graduate students, this book benefits from the author's research expertise and extensive teaching experience, introducing string theory in a concise and accessible manner. It covers the fundamentals of string theory, outlines key concepts in detail, and provides exercises to consolidate readers' understanding.
Thomas Mohaupt obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Munster and is Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively on string theory, specialising in black hole entropy and supergravity, and has taught various courses on related topics in the UK and in Germany. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, a visiting professor at the University of Nancy, and a Senior Fellow at the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics in Vienna.
Inhaltsangabe
Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I. From Particles to Strings: 1. Classical relativistic point particles 2. Classical relativistic strings 3. Quantized relativistic particles and strings. Part II. The World-Sheet Perspective: 4. The free massless scalar field on the complex plane 5. Two-dimensional conformal field theories 6. Partition functions I Part III. The Space-Time Perspective: 7. Covariant quantization I 8. Intermezzo: Representations of the Poincaré group 9. Covariant quantization II 10. Light-cone quantization 11. Partition functions II Part IV. Outlook: 12. Interactions 13. Dimensional reduction and T-duality 14. Fermions and supersymmetry Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G. References. Index.
Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I. From Particles to Strings: 1. Classical relativistic point particles 2. Classical relativistic strings 3. Quantized relativistic particles and strings. Part II. The World-Sheet Perspective: 4. The free massless scalar field on the complex plane 5. Two-dimensional conformal field theories 6. Partition functions I Part III. The Space-Time Perspective: 7. Covariant quantization I 8. Intermezzo: Representations of the Poincaré group 9. Covariant quantization II 10. Light-cone quantization 11. Partition functions II Part IV. Outlook: 12. Interactions 13. Dimensional reduction and T-duality 14. Fermions and supersymmetry Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G. References. Index.
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