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| adam_text | MICHIO KAKU INTRODUCTION TO SUPERSTRINGS AND M-THEORY SECOND EDITION
WITH 45 ILLUSTRATIONS SPRINGER CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VU XI I
FIRST QUANTIZATION AND PATH INTEGRALS 1 1 PATH INTEGRALS AND POINT
PARTICLES 3 1.1 WHY STRINGS? 3 1.2 HISTORICAL REVIEW OF GAUGE THEORY 7
1.3 PATH INTEGRALS AND POINT PARTICLES 18 1.4 RELATIVISTIC POINT
PARTICLES 25 1.5 FIRST AND SECOND QUANTIZATION 28 1.6 FADDEEV*POPOV
QUANTIZATION 30 1.7 SECOND QUANTIZATION 34 1.8 HARMONIC OSCILLATORS 37
1.9 CURRENTS AND SECOND QUANTIZATION 40 1.10 SUMMARY 44 REFERENCES 47 2
NAMBU-GOTO STRINGS 49 2.1 BOSONIC STRINGS 49 2.2 GUPTA*BLEULER
QUANTIZATION 60 2.3 LIGHT CONE QUANTIZATION 67 2.4 BRST QUANTIZATION 70
2.5 TREES 72 2.6 FROM PATH INTEGRALS TO OPERATORS 78 2.7 PROJECTIVE
INVARIANCE AND TWISTS 84 XIV CONTENTS 2.8 CLOSED STRINGS 87 2.9 GHOST
ELIMINATION 90 2.10 SUMMARY 95 REFERENCES 99 3 SUPERSTRINGS 101 3.1
SUPERSYMMETRIC POINT PARTICLES 101 3.2 TWO-DIMENSIONAL SUPERSYMMETRY 104
3.3 TREES ILL 3.4 LOCAL TWO-DIMENSIONAL SUPERSYMMETRY 117 3.5
QUANTIZATION 119 3.6 GSO PROJECTION 123 3.7 SUPERSTRINGS 126 3.8 LIGHT
CONE QUANTIZATION OF THE GS ACTION 128 3.9 VERTICES AND TREES 134 3.10
SUMMARY 136 REFERENCES 139 4 CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY AND KAC-MOODY
ALGEBRAS 141 4.1 CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY 141 4.2 SUPERCONFORMAL FIELD
THEORY 150 4.3 SPIN FIELDS 155 4.4 SUPERCONFORMAL GHOSTS 158 4.5 FERMION
VERTEX , 165 4.6 SPINORS AND TREES 167 4.7 KAC*MOODY ALGEBRAS 170 4.8
SUPERSYMMETRY 174 4.9 SUMMARY 174 REFERENCES 177 5 MULTILOOPS AND
TEICHMIILLER SPACES 178 5.1 UNITARITY 178 5.2 SINGLE-LOOP AMPLITUDE 181
5.3 HARMONIC OSCILLATORS 185 5.4 SINGLE-LOOP SUPERSTRING AMPLITUDES 192
5.5 CLOSED LOOPS 195 5.6 MULTILOOP AMPLITUDES 200 5.7 RIEMANN SURFACES
AND TEICHMIILLER SPACES 210 5.8 CONFORMAL ANOMALY 217 5.9 SUPERSTRINGS
221 5.10 DETERMINANTS AND SINGULARITIES 224 5.11 MODULI SPACE AND
GRASSMANNIANS 226 5.12 SUMMARY 238 REFERENCES 242 CONTENTS XV II SECOND
QUANTIZATION AND THE SEARCH FOR GEOMETRY 245 6 LIGHT CONE FIELD THEORY
247 6.1 WHY STRING FIELD THEORY? 247 6.2 DERIVING POINT PARTICLE FIELD
THEORY 250 6.3 LIGHT CONE FIELD THEORY 254 6.4 INTERACTIONS 261 6.5
NEUMANN FUNCTION METHOD 267 6.6 EQUIVALENCE OF THE SCATTERING AMPLITUDES
272 6.7 FOUR-STRING INTERACTION 275 6.8 SUPERSTRING FIELD THEORY 280 6.9
SUMMARY 286 REFERENCES 290 7 BRST FIELD THEORY 291 7.1 COVARIANT STRING
FIELD THEORY 291 7.2 BRST FIELD THEORY 297 7.3 GAUGE FIXING 300 7.4
INTERACTIONS 303 7.5 WITTEN S STRING FIELD THEORY 308 7.6 PROOF OF
EQUIVALENCE 311 7.7 CLOSED STRINGS AND SUPERSTRINGS 317 7.8 SUMMARY 328
REFERENCES 331 III PHENOMENOLOGY AND MODEL BUILDING 335 8 ANOMALIES AND
THE ATIYAH-SINGER THEOREM 337 8.1 BEYOND GUT PHENOMENOLOGY 337 8.2
ANOMALIES AND FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS 341 8.3 ANOMALIES IN THE FUNCTIONAL
FORMALISM 346 8.4 ANOMALIES AND CHARACTERISTIC CLASSES 348 8.5 DIRAC
INDEX 353 8.6 GRAVITATIONAL AND GAUGE ANOMALIES 357 8.7 ANOMALY
CANCELLATION IN STRINGS 366 8.8 SUMMARY 368 REFERENCES 372 9 HETEROTIC
STRINGS AND COMPACTIFICATION 373 9.1 COMPACTIFICATION 373 9.2 THE
HETEROTIC STRING 378 9.3 SPECTRUM 383 9.4 COVARIANT AND FERMIONIC
FORMULATIONS 386 9.5 TREES 388 XVI CONTENTS 9.6 SINGLE-LOOP AMPLITUDE
391 9.7 E S AND KAC-MOODY ALGEBRAS 395 9.8 LORENTZIAN LATTICES 398 9.9
SUMMARY 400 REFERENCES 403 10 CALABI-YAU SPACES AND ORBIFOLDS 404 10.1
CALABI-YAU SPACES 404 10.2 REVIEW OF DE RAHM COHOMOLOGY 409 10.3
COHOMOLOGY AND HOMOLOGY 413 10.4 KAHLER MANIFOLDS 419 10.5 EMBEDDING THE
SPIN CONNECTION 426 10.6 FERMION GENERATIONS 428 10.7 WILSON LINES 432
10.8 ORBIFOLDS 434 10.9 FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SUPERSTRINGS 438 10.10 SUMMARY
449 REFERENCES 453 IV M-THEORY 455 11 M-THEORY AND DUALITY 457 11.1
INTRODUCTION 457 11.2 DUALITY IN PHYSICS 458 11.3 WHY FIVE STRING
THEORIES? 460 11.4 R -DUALITY 462 11.5 S-DUALITY 465 11.5.1 TYPE IIA
THEORY 466 11.5.2 TYPE IIB THEORY 469 11.5.3 M-THEORY AND TYPE IIB
THEORY 471 11.5.4 8 8 HETEROTIC STRING 473 11.5.5 TYPE I STRINGS
473 11.6 SUMMARY 476 REFERENCES 480 12 COMPACTIFICATIONS AND BPS STATES
482 12.1 BPS STATES 482 12.2 SUPERSYMMETRY AND P-BRANES 484 12.3
COMPACTIFICATION 488 12.4 EXAMPLE: D = 6 490 12.4.1 D = 6, N = (2, 2)
THEORY 491 12.4.2 D = 6,N = (L,L) THEORIE S 494 12.4.3 M-THEORY IN D = 1
496 12.5 EXAMPLE: D = 4, N = 2 AND D = 6, N = 1 497 CONTENTS XVII 12.6
SYMMETRY ENHANCEMENT AND TENSIONLESS STRINGS 499 12.7 F-THEORY 501 12.8
EXAMPLE: D = 4 502 12.9 SUMMARY 504 REFERENCES 510 13 SOLITONS,
D-BRANES, AND BLACK HOLES 511 13.1 SOLITONS 511 13.2 SUPERMEMBRANE
ACTIONS 513 13.3 FIVE-BRANE ACTION 516 13.4 D-BRANES 517 13.5 D-BRANE
ACTIONS 521 13.6 M(ATRIX) MODELS AND MEMBRANES 525 13.7 BLACK HOLES 532
13.8 SUMMARY 537 13.9 CONCLUSION 542 REFERENCES 544 APPENDIX 545 A. 1 A
BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO GROUP THEORY 545 A.2 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO
GENERAL RELATIVITY 557 A.3 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF FORMS
561 A.4 A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO SUPERSYMMETRY 566 A.5 A BRIEF
INTRODUCTION TO SUPERGRAVITY 573 A.6 NOTATION 577 REFERENCES 579 INDEX
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