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. Volume 2 is concerned with the evaluation of one-loop amplitudes, the study of anomalies and phenomenology. It examines the low energy effective field theory analysis of anomalies, the emergence of the gauge groups E8 x E8 and SO(32) and the four-dimensional physics that arises by compactification of six extra dimensions. Featuring a new Preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics, as well as mathematicians. |
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Contents
Openstring oneloop amplitudes | 9 |
A Jacobi G functions | 69 |
Oneloop diagrams in superstring theory | 75 |
A Traces of fermionic zero modes | 134 |
The gauge anomaly in type I superstring theory | 141 |
A An alternative regulator | 173 |
Functional methods in the lightcone gauge | 179 |
A The determinant of the Laplacian | 256 |
B The Jacobian for the conformal transformation | 265 |
Some differential geometry | 271 |
Lowenergy effective action | 307 |
Compactification of higher dimensions | 363 |
Some algebraic geometry | 413 |
Models of lowenergy supersymmetry | 475 |
Bibliography | 553 |
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| Title | Superstring Theory: 25th Anniversary Edition CAMBRIDGE MONOGRAPHS ON MATHEM Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics Volume 2 of Superstring Theory 2 Volume Hardback Set Volume 2 of Superstring Theory, Michael B. Green Volume 2 of Superstring Theory: 25 Th Anniversary Edition. Introduction. Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology, John Henry Schwarz |
| Authors | Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz, Edward Witten |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, annotated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1107029139, 9781107029132 |
| Length | 610 pages |
| Subjects | › › Science / Physics / Mathematical & Computational |
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