| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 739 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The bosonic string -- Conformal field theory and string interactions -- Strings with world-sheet supersymmetry -- Strings with space-time supersymmetry -- T-duality and D-branes -- The heterotic string -- M-theory and string duality -- String geometry -- Flux compactifications -- Black holds in string theory -- Gauge theory/string theory dualities |
| Summary |
This book guides the reader through string theory, one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. It is ideal for graduate students and researchers in modern string theory, and will make an excellent textbook. It contains exercises with solutions, and homework problems with solutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-725) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
String models.
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String models -- Problems, exercises, etc
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SCIENCE -- Waves & Wave Mechanics.
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String models
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Snaartheorie.
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| Genre/Form |
Problems and exercises
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Leermiddelen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Becker, Melanie.
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Schwarz, John H.
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| ISBN |
9780511648830 |
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0511648839 |
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0511256531 |
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9780511256530 |
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0511255969 |
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9780511255960 |
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0511254865 |
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9780511254864 |
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9780511816086 |
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0511816081 |
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0511644825 |
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9780511644825 |
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9786612395154 |
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661239515X |
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1282395157 |
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9781282395152 |
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1139637363 |
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9781139637367 |
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0511568983 |
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9780511568985 |
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