Inhaltsbereich
TMP-TD1: String Theory I – Overview
- Overview
- Exercises
- Exam
- Extra material
Lecturer
About the lecture
Time and place
Thursday 12.15-13.45 in A249, Friday 12.15-13.45 in B101___________________________________________________________________
Overview
- Classical bosonic string
- Quantization of the bosonic string
- Conformal field theory
- String interactions
- Low energy effective actions
- Compactification and T-duality
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Literature
- Blumenhagen, Lüst, Theisen: Basic Concepts of String Theory
- Polchinski: String Theory (2 vols., especially vol. 1)
- Schomerus: A Primer on String Theory
- Tong: String Theory
- Weigand: Introduction to String Theory
- Zwiebach: A First Course in String Theory
Additional reading:
- Green, Schwarz, Witten: Superstring Theory (2 vols.)
- Arutyunov: Lectures on String Theory
For Conformal Field Theory:
- Ginsparg: Applied conformal field theory
- Blumenhagen, Plauschinn: Introduction to conformal field theory
- Di Francesco, Mathieu, Senechal: Conformal field theory
For Polyakov path integral:
For Riemann surfaces:
Additional watching: Some string theory videos by Prof. Marcus Berg (Karlstad University)
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Prerequisites
Basics in General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory.