科瑞兹斯所著的《弦论》是一本真正意义上的现代弦论的入门书籍,内容现代全面,简明,将20世纪80年代以来弦论中最易于理解,最重要的方面全面囊括其中。物理的一个核心理论是用一维扩充弦代替零维类点粒子,弦论已经成为成功地各种基本自然力统一起来的最重要理论。本书从弦论的基本定义开始,通述了经典观点和现代观点。特别地,书中详述了扰动弦论及其共形场论,同时探讨了非扰动的各个方面和弦相互作用的整体性。陈列了一些现代话题如黑洞、他们的显微熵和Ads/CFT对应,并且包括了将近500研究生水平的习题,这些都使本书的独立性增强。
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introd uction
1.1 Prehistory
1.2 The Case for String Theory
1.3 A Stringy Historical Perspective
1.4 Conventions
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2 Classical String Theory
2.1 The Point Particle
2.2 Relativistic Strings
2.3 Oscillator Expansions
2.3.1 Closed strings
2.3.2 Open strings
2.3.3 The Virasoro constraints
Bibliography
Exercises
3 Quantization of Bosonic Strings
4 Conformal Field Theory
5 Scattering Amplitudes and Vertex Operators
6 String in Background Fields
7 Superstrings and Supersymmetry
8 D-branes
9 Compactifications and Supersymmetry Breaking
10 Loop Corrections to String Effective Couplings
11 Duality Connection and Nonperturbative Effects
12 Black Holes and Entropy in String Theory
13 The Bulk/Boundary Correspondence
14 String Theory and Matrix Models
Appendix
Bibliography
Index