Overview
- Seeks to establish knowledge of the mathematical background of string theory for those who lack it
- Supplements its physics instruction with features that further emphasize the underlying math
- Presents arguments from different viewpoints and in varying contexts in the interest of “completeness”
Part of the book series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminary Matters
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Front Matter
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Constructing Superstring Theory
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Front Matter
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Physics of Supersymmetric Strings
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Front Matter
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Superstrings Beyond Weak Coupling
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Back Matter
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About this book
Graduate students typically enter into courses on string theory having little to no familiarity with the mathematical background so crucial to the discipline. As such, this book, based on lecture notes, edited and expanded, from the graduate course taught by the author at SISSA and BIMSA, places particular emphasis on said mathematical background. The target audience for the book includes students of both theoretical physics and mathematics. This explains the book’s "strange" style: on the one hand, it is highly didactic and explicit, with a host of examples for the physicists, but, in addition, there are also almost 100 separate technical boxes, appendices, and starred sections, in which matters discussed in the main text are put into a broader mathematical perspective, while deeper and more rigorous points of view (particularly those from the modern era) are presented. The boxes also serve to further shore up the reader’s understanding of the underlying math. In writing this book,the author’s goal was not to achieve any sort of definitive conciseness, opting instead for clarity and "completeness". To this end, several arguments are presented more than once from different viewpoints and in varying contexts.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sergio Cecotti graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Pisa in 1979, and has worked at Harvard University, UCLA, the CERN in Geneva and the ICTP in Trieste. He has taught physics at the University of Pisa, the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste (SISSA), and now at BIMSA in Beijing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to String Theory
Authors: Sergio Cecotti
Series Title: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36530-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36529-4Published: 07 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36532-4Due: 07 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36530-0Published: 06 October 2023
Series ISSN: 1864-5879
Series E-ISSN: 1864-5887
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 828
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Topology