Introduction To String Theory And D-brane Dynamics, An

• Main Author: Szabo, Richard J
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company 2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Dynamics; String models
• ISBN: 9781848166226; 1848166222

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Chapter 1 A Brief History of String Theory -- Chapter 2 Classical String Theory -- 2.1 The Relativistic Particle -- 2.1.1 Reparametrization Invariance -- 2.1.2 Examples -- 2.2 The Bosonic String -- 2.2.1 Worldsheet Symmetries -- 2.3 String Equations ofMotion -- 2.3.1 Mode Expansions -- 2.3.2 Mass-Shell Constraints -- Chapter 3 Quantization of the Bosonic String -- 3.1 Canonical Quantization -- 3.1.1 Normal Ordering -- 3.2 The Physical String Spectrum -- 3.2.1 The Open String Spectrum -- 3.2.2 The Closed String Spectrum -- 3.2.3 Worldsheet-Spacetime Interplay -- 3.3 Vertex Operators -- 3.3.1 Examples -- 3.4 String Perturbation Theory -- 3.5 Chan-Paton Factors -- Chapter 4 Superstrings -- 4.1 Motivation -- 4.2 The RNS Superstring -- 4.2.1 Mode Expansions -- 4.3 The Superstring Spectrum -- 4.3.1 The Open Superstring Spectrum -- 4.3.2 The Closed Superstring Spectrum -- 4.4 The GSO Projection -- 4.4.1 Spacetime Supersymmetry -- 4.5 Example: One-Loop Vacuum Amplitude -- 4.5.1 Fermionic Spin Structures -- Chapter 5 Ramond-Ramond Charges and T-Duality -- 5.1 Ramond-Ramond Charges -- 5.1.1 Remarks on Superstring Types -- 5.1.2 Type II Ramond-Ramond States -- 5.1.3 Ramond-Ramond Charges -- 5.2 T-Duality for Closed Strings -- 5.2.1 String Geometry -- 5.3 T-Duality for Open Strings -- 5.4 T-Duality for Type II Superstrings -- Chapter 6 D-Branes and Gauge Theory -- 6.1 D-Branes -- 6.2 Wilson Lines -- 6.2.1 D-Brane Terminology -- 6.3 Collective Coordinates for D-Branes -- 6.3.1 Non-Abelian Gauge Symmetry -- 6.4 The Born-Infeld Action -- Chapter 7 D-Brane Dynamics -- 7.1 The Dirac-Born-InfeldAction -- 7.1.1 Example -- 7.1.2 Supergravity Couplings -- 7.2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory -- 7.2.1 Example -- 7.3 Forces Between D-Branes -- 7.3.1 BPS States
• Chapter 8 Ramond-Ramond Couplings of D-Branes -- 8.1 D-Brane Anomalies -- 8.2 Chern-Simons Actions -- 8.3 Branes within Branes -- Chapter 9 Solutions to Exercises -- Bibliography -- Index