A first course in string theory (弦论基础)
发布日期:2006-03-02 浏览次
Description:
An accessible introduction to string theory, this book provides a detailed and self-contained demonstration of the main concepts involved. The first part deals with basic ideas, reviewing special relativity and electromagnetism while introducing the concept of extra dimensions. D-branes and the classical dynamics of relativistic strings are discussed next, and the quantization of open and closed bosonic strings in the light-cone gauge, along with a brief introduction to superstrings.
Chapter
Part I. Basics:
1. A brief introduction;
2. Special relativity and extra dimensions;
3. Electromagnetism and gravitation;
4. Nonrelativistic strings;
5. The relativistic point particle;
6. Relativistic strings;
7. String parameterization and motion;
8. World-sheet currents;
9. Light-cone relativistic strings;
10. Light-cone fields and particles;
11. Relativistic quantum particles;
12. Quantum open strings;
13. Quantum closed strings;
Part II. Developments:
14. D-branes and gauge fields;
15. String charge, electric charge, and particle physics;
16. String thermodynamics and black holes;
17. T-duality of closed strings;
18. T-duality of open strings;
19. Electromagnetic fields on D-branes;
20. Nonlinear electrodynamics;
21. Covariant string quantization;
22. Interactions and Riemann surfaces;
23. Loop amplitudes in string theory;
References;
Index.
Level graduate students, undergraduate students, academic researchers Readership mathematical physics, string theory, particle physics, mathematics Introductory Quantum Optics
读者评论
这本应算是弦论最简单的教科书，一般物理系大学生应该至少可以看懂前五章.
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