Elsevier, 2008. - 662 pp. This book is a collection of lectures given in July 2007 at the Les Houches Summer School. It provides a pedagogical introduction to topics in string theory and cosmology, adresses each topic from the basis to the most recent developments, covers the lectures by internationally-renowned and leading experts. Topics in string phenomenology, by I....
Cambridge University Press, 2015 — 393 pp. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). — ISBN: 9781107424715 (Paperback) 9780511770265 (eBook) 9780521662659 (Hardback).
The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory. Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for inflationary expansion in the very...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. — 291 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 851). — ISBN: 978-3-642-25947-0 (eBook), 978-3-642-25946-3 (Softcover). The basic idea, simple and revolutionary at the same time, to replace the concept of a point particle with a one-dimensional string, has opened up a whole new field of research. Even today, four decades later, its multifaceted...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2007, -757p. String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to very recent developments at the frontier of string theory research. The book begins with the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time...
Springer Singapore, 2017 — 95p. — (Springer Theses) — ISBN: 978-981-10-0804-7 (eBook), 978-981-10-0802-3 (Hardcover). This book is placed at the interface between string theory and elementary particle physics and shows novel results in the search for a heterotic string vacuum that reproduces those matter particles and interactions observed in our universe. The author provides a...
Springer, 2012. - 782 pp. 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...
CRC Press, 2002. — 282 p. — (Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation). — ISBN: 9780750308632. Branes are solitonic configurations of a string theory that are represented by extended objects in a higher-dimensional space-time. They are essential for a comprehension of the non-perturbative aspects of string theory, in particular, in connection with string...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 465 pp. — ISBN: 9781107022461.
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the microseconds-old universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal dissipation that it cannot be seen as made of particles. String theory provides a powerful toolbox for studying matter with...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 465 p. — ISBN-13 : 978-1107022461 Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the microseconds-old universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal dissipation that it cannot be seen as made of particles. String theory provides a powerful toolbox for studying matter...
Springer, 2023. — 846 p. — (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics). — ISBN 978-3-031-36529-4. Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and...
2nd Edition. — Springer, 2020. — 547 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 954). — ISBN: 978-3-030-54004-3. This book is a guide for all those who want to explore the standard model using string theory. The approach pursued is “halfway” between a textbook and advanced research work and, accordingly, the book will allow both graduate students and particle phenomenologists to easily get...
CRC Press; Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4822-4249-2. Почему Теория струн? Physics World's 'Book of the Year' for 2016 An Entertaining and Enlightening Guide to the Who, What, and Why of String Theory, now also available in an updated reflowable electronic format compatible with mobile devices and e-readers. During the last 50 years, numerous physicists...
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2003. - 37 pages. In these lectures some basic aspects of string theory will be discussed. Topics to be covered are classical mechanics of strings, the analysis of the string equations of motion and quantisation, compactification and T-duality. Lectures at Groningen University, february-april 2003
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 500 p. — ISBN 978-1-009-45753-8. An indispensable resource for readers in physics and mathematics seeking a solid grasp of the mathematical tools shaping modern theoretical physics, this book comprises a practical introduction to the mathematical theory of modular forms and their application to the physics of string theory and supersymmetric...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 537 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-511-26009-4 (eBook), 978-0-521-85841-0 (hardback). The past decade has witnessed dramatic developments in the field of theoretical physics. This book is a comprehensive introduction to these recent developments. It contains a review of the Standard Model, covering non-perturbative topics, and a discussion of grand...
2nd ed. — Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 504 p. — ISBN: 1107048389, 9781107048386. The past decade has witnessed dramatic developments in the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics and cosmology. This fully updated second edition is a comprehensive introduction to these recent developments and brings this self-contained textbook right up to date. Brand new...
Springer, 2020. — xii, 222 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 973). —- ISBN: 978-3-030-53054-9, 978-3-030-53056-3. This book gives a modern presentation of modular operands and their role in string field theory. The authors aim to outline the arguments from the perspective of homotopy algebras and their operadic origin. Part I reviews string field theory from the point of view of...
Springer, 2021. — 424 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics, 980). — ISBN 978-3-030-65320-0. This textbook provides an introduction to string field theory (SFT). String theory is usually formulated in the worldsheet formalism, which describes a single string (first-quantization). While this approach is intuitive and could be pushed far due to the exceptional properties of...
Independently published, 2024. — 185 p. — (Golden Dawn Engineering). — ISBN-13: 979-8333378255. Key Features: Comprehensive coverage of superstring theory mathematics, from the Nambu-Goto Action to the Hartle-Hawking state In-depth explanations and derivations of key concepts and equations Numerous examples and applications in various scenarios Explores the connection between...
2nd Edition. — IOP Publishing Ltd. — 2021. — 145 p. — ISBN 978-0-7503-3583-6. Теория струн и реальный мир: видимый сектор This book attempts to explain why string theory may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories, plus data that may be reachable, seem to have the...
Springer International Publishing, 2017 — 74p. — (SpringerBriefs in Physics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-54316-1 (eBook), 978-3-319-54315-4 (Softcover). The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional...
2nd Edition (First published 1987). — Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 482 p. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). — ISBN: 978-1-107-02911-8. 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...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 184 p. — ISBN: 0691142890 The Little Book of String Theory offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics today. String theory has been called the "theory of everything." It seeks to describe all the fundamental forces of nature. It encompasses gravity and quantum mechanics in one...
Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2012, 165 pages, ISBN: 3642235735 Superstring theory is a promising theory which can potentially unify all the forces and the matters in particle physics. A new multi-dimensional object which is called "D-brane" was found. It drastically changed our perspective of a unified world. We may live on membrane-like hypersurfaces in higher dimensions...
Institute for Theoretical Physics Utrecht University, 2003. - 79 pages. Ver. 14-05-04
Лекции по теории струн (точнее, по квантованию бозонных струн и суперструн), подготовленные голландским физиком-теоретиком, нобелевским лауреатом 1999 г. Герардом 'т Хофтом. Лекции почти полностью основаны на культовом двухтомнике Грина, Шварца и Виттена, за исключением небольших разделов по...
Institute for Theoretical Physics Utrecht University, 2004. - 34 pages.
Набор из 34 упражнений к лекциям 'т Хофта, с инструкциями к их решению и подробным обсуждением физического смысла результатов. В определенной степени компенсирует конспективность лекций – в некоторые упражнения вынесен вспомогательный теоретический материал (симметрии струнного лагранжиана, анализ...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 673 pp. String theory is one of the most active branches of theoretical physics, and has the potential to provide a unified description of all known particles and interactions. This book is a systematic introduction to the subject, focused on the detailed description of how string theory is connected to the real world of particle physics....
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017. — 108 p. — ISBN: 978-3-330-31993-6. General relativity and quantum mechanics were the two major breakthroughs that revolutionized theoretical physics in the twentieth century. General relativity gives the idea to understand the large-scale expansion of the Universe and gives a small correction to the predictions of Newtonian gravity for the...
Cambridge University Press, 2003 — 574 pp. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). — ISBN: 9780521809122.
This book focuses on the technology of D-branes in Superstring and M-theory, presenting the main ideas and recent discoveries in a pedagogical manner. It will serve as an introduction to welcome and guide newcomers to this exciting field, and an indispensible...
2nd ed. — Wiley Publishing, 2022. — 402 p. — (For Dummies). — ISBN 1119888972. Unravel the secrets of the universe and untangle cutting-edge physics Yes, you actually can understand quantum physics ! String Theory For Dummies is a beginner’s guide, and we make it fun to find out about the all the recent trends and theories in physics, including the basics of string theory, with...
Lectures. Cern: Theory Division, 1997. 248 p. CERN-TH/97- 218. hep-th/9709062/ Полностью распознано. Киритсис Э. Введение в теорию суперструн. Lectures presented at the Catholic University of Leuven and at the University of Padova during the academic year 1996- 97. To be published by Leuven University Press. Abstract. In these lecture notes, an introduction to superstring...
2nd edition. — Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. — 882 p. — ISBN 0-691-15579-8, 978-0-691-15579-1. 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...
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2008. - 306 pages.
Trying to understand string theory but ending up with your brain in knots? Here's your lifeline! This straightforward guide explains the fundamental principles behind this cutting-edge concept.
String Theory Demystified elucidates the goal of the theory-to combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single, unified...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. - 282 p. - ISBN 1108481388. Suitable for graduate students in physics and mathematics , this book presents a concise and pedagogical introduction to string theory . It focuses on explaining the key concepts of string theory, such as bosonic strings, D-branes, supersymmetry and superstrings , and on clarifying the relationship between...
Springer International Publishing, 2016 — 102p. — (Springer Theses) — ISBN: 978-3-319-24618-5 (eBook), 978-3-319-24616-1 (Hardcover). In this thesis, the author describes the development of a software framework to systematically construct a particular class of weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string models, dubbed gauge models. In their purest form, these models are...
Alpha, Penguin Group, 2008, 334 pages, ISBN: 1592577024 We're living in the midst of a scientific revolution that's captured the general public's attention and imagination. The aim of this new revolution is to develop a theory of everything a set of laws of physics that will explain all that can be explained, ranging from the tiniest subatomic particle to the universe as a...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 610 p. The discovery of a duality between Anti-de Sitter spaces (AdS) and Conformal Field Theories (CFT) has led to major advances in our understanding of quantum field theory and quantum gravity. String theory methods and AdS/CFT correspondence maps provide new ways to think about difficult condensed matter problems. String theory methods based...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, UK, 2015. — 1042 p. — ISBN: 0521768136 Self-contained and comprehensive, this definitive new edition of Gravity and Strings is a unique resource for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics. From basic differential geometry through to the construction and study of black-hole and black-brane solutions in quantum gravity...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 684 p. ISBN13: 978-0-521-82475-0 (hardback). One appealing feature of string theory is that it provides a theory of quantum gravity. Gravity and Strings is a self-contained, pedagogical exposition of this theory, its foundations, and its basic results. In Part I, the foundations are traced back to the very early special-relativistic field...
CRC Press, 2023. — 198 p. — ISBN 13 9781032384115. Суперсимметрия и теория суперструн с инженерными приложениями This book introduces the vast subject of supersymmetry along with many specific examples of engineering applications, for example: - The design of quantum unitary gates using supersymmetric actions. - Bosonic and Fermionic noise in quantum systems using the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 424, 552 pages.
The two volumes that comprise String Theory provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of string theory. Volume 1 provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string, based on the Polyakov path integral and conformal field theory. The first four chapters introduce the central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal...
Cambridge University Press, 2016 — 340p. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) — ISBN: 9781316572832 (eBook), 9780521768566 (Hardcover). The possibility that we live in a higher-dimensional world with spatial dimensions greater than three started with the early work of Kaluza and Klein. However, in addressing experimental constraints, early model-builders were forced...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 234 p. Since its conception in the 1960s, string theory has been hailed as one of the most promising routes we have to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. This book provides a concise introduction to string theory explaining central concepts, mathematical tools and covering recent developments in physics including compactifications...
Basic Books, 2010. — xx+377 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-02023-2 (PDF). String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these...
World Scientific, 1988. — 247 p. This volume covers the most up-to-date findings on string field theory. It is presented in a new approach as a result of insights gained from the theory. This includes the use of a universal method for treating free field theories, which allows the derivation of a single, simple, free, local, Poincare-invariant, gauge-invariant action that can...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. — 392 p. — ISBN 0-618-55105-0. A theoretical physicist and author of "The Life of the Cosmos" describes the evolution of modern-day string theory, the flaws in the attempt to formulate a "theory of everything" to explain all the forces and particles of nature and the origins of the universe, and their repercussions for physics and the need to get...
Imperial College Press, 2011, 148 pages This invaluable book provides a quick introduction to the rudiments of perturbative string theory and a detailed introduction to the more current topic of D-brane dynamics. The presentation is very pedagogical, with much of the technical detail streamlined. The rapid but highly coherent introduction to the subject is perhaps what...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 676 p. String theory is a leading candidate for the unification of universal forces and matter, and one of its most striking predictions is the existence of small additional dimensions that have escaped detection so far. This book focuses on the geometry of these dimensions, beginning with the basics of the theory, the mathematical...
London, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, 2009. - 38 pages. Also at Department of Theoretical Physics, Lebedev Instititute, Moscow, Russia Статтья с сайта arXiv.org We give an elementary introduction to classical and quantum bosonic string theory. These lectures were prepared in collaboration with Alexei S. Matveev.
Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universit at Heidelberg, 2012. — 177 p. Literature Motivation and Overview Why do we study String Theory? The need for a quantum theory of gravity Programme The classical bosonic string The relativistic point particle The bosonic string action Oscillator expansions Quantisation of the bosonic string Old canonical quantisation Light-cone...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 709 p. — ISBN10: 0521817471. Supersymmetry, strings and branes are believed to be the essential ingredients in a single unified consistent theory of physics. This book gives a detailed, step-by-step introduction to the theoretical foundations required for research in strings and branes. After a study of the different formulations of the...
World Scientific Pub., 1988. — 334 p. — (Advanced Series in Mathematical Physics 01). — ISBN-13 9789971502737. One way to encourage an exchange of ideas between the two disciplines is to bring the string physicists and interested mathematicians together at a conference. One such conference was held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California in March...
Basic Books, 2012. - 400 pages. ISBN10: 0465028373 ISBN13: 978-0465028375 String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that...
IOP Publishing Ltd, 2018. — 422 p. — ISBN 978-0-7503-1724-5. Written for postgraduate students as a pedagogical introductionto string theory. Extending beyond anintroductory review of the subject, it encompasses key analytical and numericaltools, as well as useful physical models in applications. The book is augmentedwith numerous codes in addition to problems and exercises.
Wiley Publishing, 2010. — 324 pages. — ISBN: 047046724X.
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2nd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 697 pages. Barton Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. Complete and thorough in its coverage, the author presents the main concepts of string theory in a concrete and physical way in order to develop intuition before formalism, often through simplified and...
Cambridge University Press, 1980. — 558 p. Barton Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. Complete and thorough in its coverage, the author presents the main concepts of string theory in a concrete and physical way in order to develop intuition before formalism, often through simplified and illustrative examples. This...
М.: Энергоатомиздат, 1987. — 176 с. Дано систематическое изложение теории релятивистской струны и различных её модификаций. Исследуются классическая и квантовая динамика свободной, струны, поведение струны во внешнем электромагнитном поле, струна с точечными массами на концах, струна в пространстве-времени с кривизной, спиновая струна, суперструна и барионная струна. Рассмотрен...
Лекции на Зимней Школе ИТЭФ. — Черноголовка: Институт теоретической физики им. Л.Д. Ландау РАН, 2009. — 50с.
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Некритические струны и Конформная аномалия.
Релятивистская частица.
Релятивистская струна.
Подход Полякова.
Фиксация калибровки.
j - дифференциалы и операторы Лапласа.
Представление det ∆ j в виде функционального интеграла. Регуляризация...
М.: Мир, 1991. - 296 с.
Книга авторов из Бельгии и Швеции содержит основные идеи теории струн. Изложение характеризуется достаточной степенью подробности, необходимой для изучения предмета читателями, не обладающими предварительными сведениями в этой области, но знакомыми с современной квантовой теорией поля, включая суперсимметрию. Списки литературы и упражнения облегчают...
М.: Мир, 1990. -518 с. Первый том двухтомной монографии известных специалистов (Англия, США), посвященной наиболее передовой области современной математической физики. Теория суперструн — это синтез глубоких идей теоретической физики и ряда разделов современной математики. В ней частью решены, частью намечены пути решения фундаментальных задач единой теории элементарных частиц...
М.: Мир, 1990. - 656 с. Второй том двухтомной монографии известных специалистов (Англия, США), посвященной наиболее передовой области современной математической физики. Теория суперструн — это синтез глубоких идей теоретической физики и ряда разделов современной математики. В ней частью решены, частью намечены пути решения фундаментальных задач единой теории элементарных частиц...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Мир, 1999. — 624 с.: ил. Книга американского специалиста, содержащая систематическое изложение одного из наиболее актуальных направлений современной теоретической физики. Теория суперструн объединяет квантовую гравитацию и современные калибровочные теории элементарных частиц. В рамках этой теории были решены, в частности, знаменитые проблемы ультрафиолетовых...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1991. –246. – ISBN: 5-02-029689-9. В монографии излагаются основы теории струн. Рассмотрены вопросы абелевых и не абелевых аномалий и связь между ними, бозонная струна, спиновая струна и суперструна Грина — Шварца, компактификация замкнутой бозонной струны и гетеротическая струна, функциональные меметоды, струна Полякова, двумерные конформные теории поля. В...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1990. — 368 c.: ил. Монография представляет собой систематическое введение в предмет современной теории струн и суперструн. Дан анализ классической теории, на основе которого формулируются методы квантования. Рассмотрены струнные и суперструнные амплитуды, квантовые аномалии, сигма-модельный подход к построению низкоэнергетического эффективного действия....
Пер. со 2-го англ. расширенного изд. — Под ред. и с предисл. И.Я. Арефьевой, В.И. Санюка; Предисл. Д. Гросса. — М.: Едиториал УРСС, 2011. — 784 с. — ISBN 978-5-354-01367-8. "Начальный курс теории струн" Бартона Цвибаха уникален по стилю и форме изложения. Он позволит начинающим исследователям избежать чувства подавленности и отчаяния, которые нередко сопутствуют штудированию...
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