Introduction to superstrings and M-theory
2nd ed.
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Word Count
146,750 words, Guess
Page Count
587 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL366515M
- ISBN-100387985891
- OCLC Control Number39379754
- OCLC Control Numberintroductiontosu00kaku
- Library of Congress Control Number98026976
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- Goodreads38399
- LibraryThing1319943
Classifications
- DDC539.7/258
- LCCQC794.6.S85 K35 1999
Description
Superstrings and M-theory are provocative and controversial, but unarguably among the most interesting and active areas of research in current physics. Called by some "the theory of everything," superstrings may solve a problem that has eluded physicists for the past 50 years, the final unification of the two great theories of the twentieth century, general relativity and quantum field theory. Now, here is a thoroughly revised, second edition of a course-tested comprehensive introductory graduate text on superstrings which stresses the most current areas of interest, not covered in other presentations, including four-dimensional superstrings, Kac-Moody algebras, Teichmuller spaces and Calabi-Yau manifolds, M-theory membranes and D-branes, duality and BPS relations, and matrix models. Prerequisites are an acquaintance with quantum mechanics and relativity.
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Series Statement
- Graduate texts in contemporary physics
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