Basic Concepts of String Theory (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) - Hardcover

Blumenhagen, Ralph; Lüst, Dieter; Theisen, Stefan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3642294960 ISBN 13: 9783642294969

Verlag: Springer, 2012

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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.

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Stefan Theisen is also LNP series editor for many years
Ralph Blumenhagen has already published an LNP

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The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in string theory. It is intended as a textbook in the sense that, starting from the basics, the material is presented in a pedagogical and self-contained fashion. The emphasis is on the world-sheet perspective of closed strings and of open strings ending on D-branes, where two-dimensional conformal field theory is the main tool. Compactifications of string theory, with and without fluxes, and string dualities are also discussed from the space-time point of view, i.e. in geometric language. End-of-chapter references have been added to guide the reader intending to pursue further studies or to start research in the topics covered by this book.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3642294960
• ISBN 13: 9783642294969
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 796
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