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Introduction to strings and branes.

Introduction to strings and branes.
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Dewey Class 539.7258 (DDC 22)
Title Introduction to strings and branes. (M) / Peter West
Author West, Peter C.
Publication Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012
Physical Details xii, 709 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN 9780521817479
Summary Note Supersymmetry, strings and branes are believed to be the essential ingredients in a single unified consistent theory of physics. This book gives a detailed, step-by-step introduction to the theoretical foundations required for research in strings and branes. After a study of the different formulations of the bosonic and supersymmetric point particles, the classical and quantum bosonic and supersymmetric string theories are presented. This book includes accounts of brane dynamics and D-branes and the T, S and U duality symmetries of string theory. The historical derivation of string theory is given as well as the sum over the world-sheet approach to the interacting string. More advanced topics include string field theory and Kac-Moody symmetries. The book contains pedagogical accounts of conformal quantum field theory, supergravity theories, Clifford algebras and spinors, and Lie algebras. It is essential reading for graduate students and researchers wanting to learn strings and branes.:
Contents note 1. The point particle 2. The classical bosonic string 3. The quantum bosonic string 4. The light-cone approach 5. Clifford algebras and spinors 6. The classical superstring 7. The quantum superstring 8. Conformal symmetry and two-dimensional field theory 9. Conformal symmetry and string theory 10. String compactification and the heterotic string 11. The physical states and the no ghost theorem 12. Gauge covariant string theory 13. Supergravity theories in 4, 10 and 11 dimensions 14. Brane dynamics 15. D-branes 16. String theory and Lie algebras 17. Symmetries of string theory 18. String interactions.
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