TY  - BOOK
AU  - West,Peter
TI  - Introduction to Strings and Branes
SN  - 9781139045926 (ebook)
AV  - QC794.6.S85 W47 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Superstring theories
KW  - Branes
KW  - Supersymmetry
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Supersymmetry, strings and branes are believed to be the essential ingredients in a single unified consistent theory of physics. This book gives a detailed, step-by-step introduction to the theoretical foundations required for research in strings and branes. After a study of the different formulations of the bosonic and supersymmetric point particles, the classical and quantum bosonic and supersymmetric string theories are presented. This book includes accounts of brane dynamics and D-branes and the T, S and U duality symmetries of string theory. The historical derivation of string theory is given as well as the sum over the world-sheet approach to the interacting string. More advanced topics include string field theory and Kac–Moody symmetries. The book contains pedagogical accounts of conformal quantum field theory, supergravity theories, Clifford algebras and spinors, and Lie algebras. It is essential reading for graduate students and researchers wanting to learn strings and branes
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139045926
ER  -