| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Lecture notes in physics, 1616-6361 ; v. 851 |
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Lecture notes in physics ; 851. 0075-8450
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| Contents |
String Theory 101 / Neil Lambert -- D-Branes and Orientifolds / Ralph Blumenhagen -- Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality / Johanna Erdmenger -- Holography for Strongly Coupled Media / Dam Thanh Son -- Quantum Black Holes / Atish Dabholkar and Suresh Nampuri -- Lectures on Topological String Theory / Hirosi Ooguri -- Doubled Field Theory, T-Duality and Courant-Brackets / Barton Zwiebach |
| Summary |
The basic idea, simple and revolutionary at the same time, to replace the concept of a point particle with a one-dimensional string, has opened up a whole new field of research. Even today, four decades later, its multifaceted consequences are still not fully conceivable. Up to now string theory has offered a new way to viewparticles as different excitations of the same fundamental object. It has celebrated success in discovering the graviton in its spectrum, and it has naturally led scientists to posit space-times with more than four dimensions-which in turn has triggered numerous interesting developments in fields as varied as condensed matter physics and pure mathematics. This book collects pedagogical lectures by leading experts in string theory, introducing the non-specialist reader to some of the newest developments in the field. The carefully selected topics are at the cutting edge of research in string theory and include new developments in topological strings, AdS/CFT dualities, as well as newly emerging subfields such as doubled field theory and holography in the hydrodynamic regime. The contributions to this book have been selected and arranged in such a way as to form a self-contained, graduate level textbook |
| Analysis |
Physics |
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Mathematical physics |
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Quantum Field Theories, String Theory |
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Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences |
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Mathematical Methods in Physics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 21, 2014) |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
String models.
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Physique.
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Astronomie.
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String models
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baumgartl, Marco.
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Brunner, Ilka.
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Haack, Michael.
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| ISBN |
9783642259470 |
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3642259472 |
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3642259464 |
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9783642259463 |
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