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String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction<br />
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String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern <br />
theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string <br />
theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string <br />
theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field <br />
theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, <br />
including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It then covers string <br />
geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle <br />
physics, black holes in string theory and M-theory, and the microscopic origin <br />
of black-hole entropy. It concludes with Matrix theory, the AdS/CFT duality and <br />
its generalizations. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in <br />
modern string theory, and will make an excellent textbook for a one-year course <br />
on string theory. It contains over 120 exercises with solutions, and over 200 <br />
homework problems with solutions available on a password protected website for <br />
lecturers at cambridge(dot)org/9780521860697<br />
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Table Of Contents<br />
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1. Introduction;<br />
2. The bosonic string;<br />
3. Conformal field theory and string interactions;<br />
4. Strings with world-sheet supersymmetry;<br />
5. Strings with space-time supersymmetry;<br />
6. T-duality and D-branes;<br />
7. The heterotic string;<br />
8. M-theory and string duality;<br />
9. String geometry;<br />
10. Flux compactifications;<br />
11. Black holes in string theory;<br />
12. Gauge theory/string theory dualities; References<br />
Index.<br />
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Product Details<br />
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* ISBN: 0521860695<br />
* ISBN-13: 9780521860697<br />
* Format: Hardcover, 739pp<br />
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press<br />
* Pub. Date: September 2007<br />
* Edition Description: 1ST<br />
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