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Superstring theory. Volume 1, Introduction
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Twenty-five years ago, Michael Green, John Schwarz, and Edward Witten wrote two volumes on string theory. Published during a period of rapid progress in this subject, these volumes were highly influential for a generation of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made in the field since then, the systematic exposition of the foundations of superstring theory presented in these volumes is just as relevant today as when first published. A self-contained introduction to superstrings, Volume 1 begins with an elementary treatment of the bosonic string, before describing the incorporation of additional degrees of freedom: fermionic degrees of freedom leading to supersymmetry and internal quantum numbers leading to gauge interactions. A detailed discussion of the evaluation of tree-approximation scattering amplitudes is also given. Featuring a new preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory.
| כותר |
Superstring theory. Volume 1, Introduction / Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz, Edward Witten. [electronic resource] |
|---|---|
| מהדורה |
25th Anniversary edition. |
| מוציא לאור |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
| שנה |
2012 |
| הערות |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Cover Superstring TheoryVolume 1: Introduction 25th Anniversary Edition Dedication Title Copyright Contents Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition 1. Introduction 1.1 The Early Days of Dual Models 1.1.1 The Veneziano amplitude and duality 1.1.2 High-energy behavior of the Veneziano model 1.1.3 Ramifications of the Veneziano model 1.2 Dual models of everything 1.2.1 Duality and the graviton 1.2.2 Unification in higher dimensions 1.2.3 Supersymmetry 1.3 String theory 1.3.1 The massless point particle 1.3.2 Generalization to strings 1.3.3 Constraint equations 1.4 String interactions1.4.1 Splitting of strings 1.4.2 Vertex operators 1.4.3 Use of vertex operators 1.4.4 Evaluation of the scattering amplitude 1.4.5 The mass of the graviton 1.5 Other aspects of string theory 1.5.1 Gravitational Ward identities 1.5.2 Open strings 1.5.3 Internal symmetries of open strings 1.5.4 Recovery of the Veneziano amplitude 1.5.5 Comparison with QCD 1.5.6 Unitarity and gravity 1.6 Conclusion 2 Free bosonic strings 2.1 The classical bosonic string 2.1.1 String action and its symmetries 2.1.2 The free string in Minkowski space 2.1.3 Classical covariant gauge fixing and field equations2.2 Quantization - old covariant approach 2.2.1 Commutation relations and mode expansions 2.2.2 Virasoro algebra and physical states 2.2.3 Vertex operators 2.3 Light-cone gauge quantization 2.3.1 Light-cone gauge and Lorentz algebra 2.3.2 Construction of transverse physical states 2.3.3 The no-ghost theorem andthe spectrum-generating algebra 2.3.4 Analysis of the spectrum 2.3.5 Asymptotic formulas for level densities 2.4 Summary 3 Modern covariant quantization 3.1 Covariant path-integral quantization 3.1.1 Faddeev-Popov ghosts3.1.2 Complex world-sheet tensor calculus 3.1.3 Quantization of the ghosts 3.2 BRST quantization 3.2.1 Construction of BRST charge 3.2.2 Covariant calculation of the Virasoro anomaly 3.2.3 Virasoro, conformal and gravitational anomalies 3.2.4 Bosonization of ghost coordinates 3.3 Global aspects of the string world sheet 3.4 Strings in background fields 3.4.1 Introduction of a background space-time metric 3.4.2 Weyl invariance 3.4.3 Conformal invariance and the equations of motion 3.4.4 String-theoretic corrections to general relativity 3.4.5 Inclusion of other modes3.4.6 The dilaton expectation value and the string coupling constant 3.5 Summary 4 World-sheet super symmetry in string theory 4.1 The classical theory 4.1.1 Global world-sheet supersymmetry 4.1.2 Superspace 4.1.3 Constraint equations 4.1.4 Boundary conditions and mode expansions 4.2 Quantization - the old covariant approach 4.2.1 Commutation relations and mode expansions 4.2.2 Super-Virasoro algebra and physical states 4.2.3 Boson-emission vertex operators 4.3 Light-cone gauge quantization 4.3.1 The light-cone gauge 4.3.2 No-ghost theorem and the spectrum-generating algebra |
| סדרה |
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (viii, 470 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
997010707363205171 |
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