03317nam 22005655 450 991074118190332120200703010145.03-319-54316-410.1007/978-3-319-54316-1(CKB)3710000001124670(DE-He213)978-3-319-54316-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4828339(PPN)199768072(EXLCZ)99371000000112467020170321d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierString Theory Compactifications /by Mariana Graña, Hagen Triendl1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (VII, 74 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.) SpringerBriefs in Physics,2191-54233-319-54315-6 Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to String Theory -- Chapter 2 Lecture 2: Compactifications on tori -- Chapter 3 Lecture 3: Calabi-Yau Compactifications -- Chapter 4 Lecture 4: Fluxes and Generalized Geometry -- Chapter 5 Lecture 5: 4D Effective actions for compactifications on manifolds of reduced structure -- Chapter 6 Lecture 6: Open problems in phenomenology .The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification. The text starts with a very brief introduction to string theory, first working out its massless spectrum and showing how the condition on the number of dimensions arises. It then dwells on the different possible internal manifolds, from the simplest to the most relevant phenomenologically, thereby showing that the most elegant description is through an extension of ordinary Riemannian geometry termed generalized geometry, which was first introduced by Hitchin. Last but not least, the authors review open problems in string phenomenology, such as the embedding of the Standard Model and obtaining de Sitter solutions.SpringerBriefs in Physics,2191-5423Quantum field theoryString theoryMathematical physicsQuantum Field Theories, String Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P19048Mathematical Applications in the Physical Scienceshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M13120Quantum field theory.String theory.Mathematical physics.Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.530Graña Marianaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut825028Triendl Hagenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910741181903321String Theory Compactifications3554183UNINA