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An introduction to string theory and D-brane dynamics /
This invaluable book provides a quick introduction to the rudiments of perturbative string theory and a detailed introduction to the more current topic of D-brane dynamics. The presentation is very pedagogical, with much of the technical detail streamlined. The rapid but highly coherent introduction...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Imperial College Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. A brief history of string theory
- ch. 2. Classical string theory. 2.1 The relativistic particle. 2.2 The bosonic string. 2.3. String equations of motion
- ch. 3. Quantization of the bosonic string. 3.1 Canonical quantization. 3.2. The physical string spectrum. 3.3. Vertex operators. 3.4. String perturbation theory. 3.5. Chan-paton factors
- ch. 4. Superstrings. 4.1. Motivation. 4.2. The RNS superstring. 4.3 The superstring spectrum. 4.4. The GSO projection. 4.5. Example: one-loop vacuum amplitude
- ch. 5. Ramond-Ramond charges and T-duality. 5.1 Ramond-Ramond charges. 5.2. T-duality for closed strings. 5.3. T-duality for open strings. 5.4. T-duality for type II superstrings
- ch. 6. D-branes and gauge theory. 6.1 D-branes. 6.2. Wilson lines. 6.3 Collective coordinates for D-branes. 6.4. The born-infeld action
- ch. 7. D-brane dynamics. 7.1. The dirac-born-infeld action. 7.2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. 7.3 Forces between D-branes
- ch. 8. Ramond-Ramond couplings of D-branes. 8.1. D-brane anomalies ill. 8.2. Chern-Simons actions. 8.3 Branes within branes.