String Field Theory

A Modern Introduction

AvHarold Erbin

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Del 980 i serien Lecture Notes in Physics

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Beskrivning

This textbook provides an introduction to string field theory (SFT). As a field theory, SFT provides a rigorous and constructive formulation of string theory. The main focus of the book is the construction of the closed bosonic SFT.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-27
Mått:155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:668 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lecture Notes in Physics
Antal sidor:421
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030653200

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Fysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Matematisk fysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Kvantfysik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Harold Erbin obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 University. Afterwards, he held postdoctoral positions at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (Allahabad/Prayagraj), where he learned string field theory with Ashoke Sen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) and Università di Torino. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at MIT (Boston) and CEA-LIST (Paris). Beside string field theory, his contributions include works on black holes and supergravity, two-dimensional gravity, tensor models and applications of machine learning to theoretical physics.

Recensioner i media

“The book under review offers a comprehensive self-contained description of string field theory (SFT) and the tools necessary to build it. … For each chapter the author has collected the most relevant references. This, together with various examples, figures, remarks and, especially, a suitable amount of details, has produced a compulsively readable textbook quite useful for students and newcomers. … The last version of the draft of the book can be accessed on the author's professional web page.” (Farhang Loran, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2022)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Worldsheet path integral: vacuum amplitudes.- Worldsheet path integral: scattering amplitudes.- Worldsheet path integral: complex coordinates.- Conformal field theory in D dimensions.- Conformal field theory on the plane.- CFT systems.- BRST quantization.- String field.- Free BRST string field theory.- Introduction to off-shell string theory.- Geometry of moduli spaces and Riemann surfaces.- Off-shell amplitudes.-Amplitude factorization and Feynman diagrams.- Closed string field theory.- Background independence.- Superstring.- Momentum-space SFT.