Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory [E-Book] / by Michio Kaku.
Superstrings - provocative, controversial, possibly untestable, but unarguably one of the most interesting and active areas of research in current physics. Called by some, "the theory of everything", superstrings may solve a problem which has eluded physicists for the past 50 years - the f...
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Personal Name(s): | Kaku, Michio, author |
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Second Edition. |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
1999
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Physical Description: |
XVII, 587 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9781461205432 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4612-0543-2 |
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Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
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- I First Quantization and Path Integrals
- 1 Path Integrals and Point Particles
- 2 Nambu—Goto Strings
- 3 Superstrings
- 4 Conformal Field Theory and Kac-Moody Algebras
- 5 Multiloops and Teichmüller Spaces
- II Second Quantization and the Search for Geometry
- 6 Light Cone Field Theory
- 7 BRST Field Theory
- III Phenomenology and Model Building
- 8 Anomalies and the Atiyah—Singer Theorem
- 9 Heterotic Strings and Compactification
- 10 Calabi—Yau Spaces and Orbifolds
- IV M-Theory
- 11 M-Theory and Duality
- 12 Compactifications and BPS States
- 13Solitons, D-Branes, and Black Holes
- A.1 A Brief Introduction to Group Theory
- A.2 A Brief Introduction to General Relativity
- A.3 A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Forms
- A.4 A Brief Introduction to Supersymmetry
- A.5 A Brief Introduction to Supergravity
- A.6 Notation
- References.