Andreas Recknagel (King's College London), Volker Schomerus

Boundary Conformal Field Theory and the Worldsheet Approach to D-Branes

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive introduction to the mathematical description of strings, D-branes and the geometry of strongly curved spacetime.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521832236
• ISBN-10: 0521832233
• Artikelnr.: 39487806

Autorenporträt

Andreas Recknagel is a member of staff at the Department of Mathematics, King's College London. His research centers on quantum field theory in two dimensions, in particular conformal field theories and their applications to strings and branes. He is also interested in topological field theory and the relation of non-commutative geometry to quantum field theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Free field theory with boundaries
2. Superstrings and branes
3. Conformal field theory on the plane
4. Boundary conformal field theory
5. Perturbation of boundary conformal field theories
6. The Wess-Zumino-Witten model on SU(2)
7. Gepner model boundary states and Calabi-Yau branes
Appendix. Formulas and identities
Index.