String theory in a nutshell
"String Theory in a Nutshell is the definitive introduction to modern string theory. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, this concise and accessible book starts with basic definitions and guides readers from classic topics to the most exciting frontiers of research today. It covers perturbative string theory, the unity of string interactions, black holes and their microscopic entropy, the AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications, matrix model tools for string th…
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- Full title :String theory in a nutshell / Elias Kiritsis.
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"String Theory in a Nutshell is the definitive introduction to modern string theory. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, this concise and accessible book starts with basic definitions and guides readers from classic topics to the most exciting frontiers of research today. It covers perturbative string theory, the unity of string interactions, black holes and their microscopic entropy, the AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications, matrix model tools for string theory, and more. It also includes 600 exercises and serves as a self-contained guide to the literature. This fully updated edition features an entirely new chapter on flux compactifications in string theory, and the chapter on AdS/CFT has been substantially expanded by adding many applications to diverse topics. In addition, the discussion of conformal field theory has been extensively revised to make it more student-friendly."--Publisher
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- Publication Date:©2019
- Edition:Second edition
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- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton and Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
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- Description:xxiv, 855 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691155798, 9780691155791
- oclc:on1051134322
- LC Classification:QC794.6.S85
- Dewey Decimal:539.7258
Table of Contents
Classical string theory -- Quantization of bosonic strings -- Conformal field theory -- Scattering amplitudes and vertex operators -- Strings in background fields -- Superstrings and supersymmetry -- D-branes -- Compactification and supersymmetry breaking -- Loop corrections to string effective couplings -- Duality connections and nonperturbative effects -- Compactifications with fluxes -- Black holes and entropy in string theory -- The bulk/boundary (holographic) correspondence -- Applications of the holographic correspondence -- String theory and matrix models -- Appendix A : Two-dimensional complex geometry -- Appendix B : Differential forms -- Appendix C : Conformal transformations and curvature -- Appendix D: Theta and other elliptic functions -- Appendix E : Toroidal lattice sums -- Appendix F : Toroidal Kaluza-Klein reduction -- Appendix G : The Reissner-Nordström black hole -- Appendix H : Electric-magnetic duality in D = 4 -- Appendix I : Supersymmetric actions in ten and eleven dimensions -- Appendix J : N = 1,2, four-dimensional supergravity coupled to matter -- Appendix K : BPS multiplets in four dimensions -- Appendix L : The geometry of anti-de Sitter space.
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