Joseph Polchinski

String Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The two volumes that comprise STRING THEORY provide an up-to-date, comprehensive account of string theory. Volume 1 offers a thorough introduction to the bosonic string, based on the Polyakov path integral and conformal field theory and also treats various string interactions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 909g
• ISBN-13: 9780521633031
• ISBN-10: 0521633036
• Artikelnr.: 21042021

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Notation
1. A first look at strings
2. Conformal field theory
3. The Polyakov path integral
4. The string spectrum
5. The string S-matrix
6. Tree-level amplitudes
7. One-loop amplitudes
8. Toroidal compactification and T-duality
9. Higher order amplitudes
Appendix A: a short course on path integrals
References
Glossary
Index.