Superstring Theory: 25th Anniversary EditionTwenty-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 of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made in the field since then, the systematic exposition of the foundations of superstring theory presented in these volumes is just as relevant today as when first published. A self-contained introduction to superstrings, Volume 1 begins with an elementary treatment of the bosonic string, before describing the incorporation of additional degrees of freedom: fermionic degrees of freedom leading to supersymmetry and internal quantum numbers leading to gauge interactions. A detailed discussion of the evaluation of tree-approximation scattering amplitudes is also given. Featuring a new Preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory. |
Contents
Free bosonic strings | 57 |
Modern covariant quantization | 121 |
Worldsheet supersymmetry in string theory | 185 |
Spacetime supersymmetry in string theory | 249 |
A Properties of 50211 groups | 282 |
B The spin8 Clifford algebra | 288 |
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Superstring Theory Michael B. Green,John H. Schwarz,Professor of Mathematical Physics Edward Witten No preview available - 2012 |
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action adjoint representation anomaly anticommuting arbitrary bosonic string theory boundary conditions BRST chapter chirality choice closed strings closed-string commutation relations components conformal dimension conformal invariance constraint construction coordinates corresponding covariant cyclic symmetry defined definite derivative described diagram Dirac discussion dual models emission energy—momentum tensor equations of motion fact factor fermions fig find finite Fock space formula function ghost number given gives graviton heterotic string implies infinite interactions lattice Lett Lie algebra light-cone gauge Majorana mass massless vector metric Minkowski space momentum multiplet no-ghost theorem normal-ordering Nucl obey one-loop open strings open-string oscillators parameter path integral Phys physical poles possible propagator quantization quantum field theory quantum numbers reparametrization right-moving modes satisfies scalar space-time specific spectrum spin spinor string world sheet supergravity superstring superstring theory supersymmetry tachyon theorem transformations transverse tree amplitudes two-dimensional unitarity vanishes vertex operator Virasoro algebra Weyl world sheet Yang—Mills theory zero-norm