Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John Schwarz

String Theory and M-Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 covers many topics including world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory, the heterotic string, string geometry and flux compactifications, and Matrix theory. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in modern string theory, and will make an excellent textbook. It contains exercises with solutions, and homework problems with solutions available to lecturers at www.cambridge.org

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 756
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1513g
• ISBN-13: 9780521860697
• ISBN-10: 0521860695
• Artikelnr.: 20911032

Autorenporträt

Katrin Becker is a Professor of Physics at Texas A & M University. She has been awarded the Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University in 2006 and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

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.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.

Rezensionen

'This is the first comprehensive textbook on string theory to also offer an up-to-date picture of the most important theoretical developments of the last decade, including the AdS/CFT correspondence and flux compactifications, which have played a crucial role in modern efforts to make contact with experiment. An excellent resource for graduate students as well as researchers in high-energy physics and cosmology.' Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University