The twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics.

Zusatztext 'Both volumes of Superstring Theory are likely to remain standard reference works for years to come.' Paul K. Townsend! Nature Informationen zum Autor Michael B. Green is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext The twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics. Zusammenfassung Originally published at the height of the first revolution in string theory! these two volumes went on to define the field. Volume 2 focuses on one-loop amplitudes! anomalies and phenomenology. Featuring a new Preface! this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 8. One-loop diagrams in the bosonic string theory; 9. One-loop diagrams in superstring theory; 10. The gauge anomaly in type I superstring theory; 11. Functional methods in the light-cone gauge; 12. Some differential geometry; 13. Low-energy effective action; 14. Compactification of higher dimensions; 15. Some algebraic geometry; 16. Models of low-energy supersymmetry; Bibliography; Index.

Auteur

Michael B. Green is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

Résumé
Originally published at the height of the first revolution in string theory, these two volumes went on to define the field. Volume 2 focuses on one-loop amplitudes, anomalies and phenomenology. Featuring a new Preface, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics.

Contenu

Preface; 8. One-loop diagrams in the bosonic string theory; 9. One-loop diagrams in superstring theory; 10. The gauge anomaly in type I superstring theory; 11. Functional methods in the light-cone gauge; 12. Some differential geometry; 13. Low-energy effective action; 14. Compactification of higher dimensions; 15. Some algebraic geometry; 16. Models of low-energy supersymmetry; Bibliography; Index.