[PDF] Fields Strings And Duality eBook

Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Field theory (Physics)
ISBN : 9814529737

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"The past year has witnessed truly remarkable developments in our understanding of string theory. Fields, Strings and Duality - TASI 96 is an invaluable collection of review papers on the subject, contributed by the most prominent researchers in the field. This volume is a scientific treasure for graduate students, researchers and all others who are interested in the progress of theoretical physics."--Publisher's website

Author : Constantin P. Bachas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2008-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540362452

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The contributions to this volume of the famous summer school in Les Houches cover the recent developments in supersymmetric string theory, the gauge theory/string theory correspondence and string duality. The book is a comprehensive introduction to the recent developments in string/M-theory and quantum gravity.

Author : L. Baulieu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401147302

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As recent developments have shown, supersymmetric quantum field theory and string theory are intimately related, with advances in one area often shedding light on the other. The organising ideas of most of these advances are the notion of duality and the physics of higher dimensional objects or p-branes. The topics covered in the present volume include duality in field theory, in particular in supersymmetric field theory and supergravity, and in string theory. The Seiberg-Witten theory and its recent developments are also covered in detail. A large fraction of the volume is devoted to the current state of the art in M-theory, in particular its underlying superalgebra as well as its connection with superstring and N = 2 strings. The physics of D-branes and its essential role in the beautiful computation of the black hole entropy is also carefully covered. Finally, the last two sets of lectures are devoted to the exciting matrix approach to non-perturbative string theory.

Author : Joseph Polchinski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9813149450

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This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2015 summer school, 'New Frontiers in Fields and Strings', held at the University of Colorado Boulder in June 2015. The school focused on topics in theoretical physics of interest to contemporary researchers in quantum field theory and string theory. The lectures are accessible to graduate students in the initial stages of their research careers.

Author : Martin Ammon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1107010349

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The first textbook on this important topic, for graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics.

Author : L. Baulieu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780792353447

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As recent developments have shown, supersymmetric quantum field theory and string theory are intimately related, with advances in one area often shedding light on the other. The organising ideas of most of these advances are the notion of duality and the physics of higher dimensional objects or p-branes. The topics covered in the present volume include duality in field theory, in particular in supersymmetric field theory and supergravity, and in string theory. The Seiberg-Witten theory and its recent developments are also covered in detail. A large fraction of the volume is devoted to the current state of the art in M-theory, in particular its underlying superalgebra as well as its connection with superstring and N = 2 strings. The physics of D-branes and its essential role in the beautiful computation of the black hole entropy is also carefully covered. Finally, the last two sets of lectures are devoted to the exciting matrix approach to non-perturbative string theory.

Author : Ralph Blumenhagen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642294979

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The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in string theory at an intermediate level. As such it is not a compendium of results but intended as textbook in the sense that most of the material is organized in a pedagogical and self-contained fashion. Beyond the basics, a number of more advanced topics are introduced, such as conformal field theory, superstrings and string dualities - the text does not cover applications to black hole physics and cosmology, nor strings theory at finite temperatures. End-of-chapter references have been added to guide the reader wishing to pursue further studies or to start research in well-defined topics covered by this book.

Author : Katrin Becker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521860697

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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 www.cambridge.org/9780521860697.