TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polchinski,Joseph Gerard
TI  - String theory
T2  - Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
SN  - 9780511618123 (ebook)
AV  - QC794.6.S85 P65 2005
U1  - 530.14 21
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - String models
KW  - Superstring theories
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - String Theory, first published in 1998, comprises two volumes which provide a comprehensive and pedagogic account of the subject. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to supersymmetric string theories and presents the important advances of recent years. The first three chapters introduce the type I, type II, and heterototic superstring theories and their interactions. The next two chapters present important recent discoveries about strongly coupled strings, beginning with a detailed treatment of D-branes and their dynamics, and covering string duality, M-theory, and black hole entropy. The final chapters are concerned with four-dimensional string theories, showing how some of the simplest string models connect with previous ideas for unifying the Standard Model. They collect many important results on world-sheet and spacetime symmetries. An appendix summarizes the necessary background on fermions and supersymmetry. An essential text and reference for graduate students and researchers interested in superstring theory
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511618123
ER  -