LEADER 03933nam 22006495 450 001 9910747592203321 005 20231006180937.0 010 $a9783031365300 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-36530-0 035 $a(CKB)28487829800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30782895 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30782895 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-36530-0 035 $a(PPN)272914509 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30774785 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30774785 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928487829800041 100 $a20231006d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIntroduction to String Theory /$fby Sergio Cecotti 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (846 pages) 225 1 $aTheoretical and Mathematical Physics,$x1864-5887 311 $a9783031365294 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. The Polyakov path integral -- Chapter 2. Introduction to 2d conformal field theories -- Chapter 3. Spectrum, vertices, and BRST quantization -- Chapter 4. Tree and one-loop amplitudes in the bosonic string -- Chapter 5. Consistent 10d superstring, modular invariance, and all that -- Chapter 6. The Heterotic string: part I -- Chapter 7. Toroidal compactifications and T-duality (bosonic string) -- Chapter 8. The Heterotic string: part II -- Chapter 9. Superstring interactions and anomalies -- Chapter 10. Superstring D-branes -- Chapter 11. Strings at strong coupling -- Chapter 12. Calabi-Yau compactifications. Appendix. 330 $aGraduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and BIMSA, places particular emphasis on said mathematical background. The target audience for the book includes students of both theoretical physics and mathematics. This explains the book?s "strange" style: on the one hand, it is highly didactic and explicit, with a host of examples for the physicists, but, in addition, there are also almost 100 separate technical boxes, appendices, and starred sections, in which matters discussed in the main text are put into a broader mathematical perspective, while deeper and more rigorous points of view (particularly those from the modern era) are presented. The boxes also serve to further shore up the reader?s understanding of the underlying math. In writing this book, the author?s goal was not to achieve any sort of definitive conciseness, opting instead for clarity and "completeness". To this end, several arguments are presented more than once from different viewpoints and in varying contexts. . 410 0$aTheoretical and Mathematical Physics,$x1864-5887 606 $aMathematical physics 606 $aGravitation 606 $aParticles (Nuclear physics) 606 $aManifolds (Mathematics) 606 $aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics 606 $aClassical and Quantum Gravity 606 $aParticle Physics 606 $aManifolds and Cell Complexes 615 0$aMathematical physics. 615 0$aGravitation. 615 0$aParticles (Nuclear physics). 615 0$aManifolds (Mathematics). 615 14$aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. 615 24$aClassical and Quantum Gravity. 615 24$aParticle Physics. 615 24$aManifolds and Cell Complexes. 676 $a605 700 $aCecotti$b Sergio$01431735 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910747592203321 996 $aIntroduction to String Theory$93574634 997 $aUNINA