Description String Theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics.
It contains over 120 exercises with solutions, and over 200 homework problems with solutions available on a password protected website for lecturers at www.cambridge.org/9780521860697..
This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in modern String theory, and will make an excellent textbook for a one-year course on String theory.
It concludes with Matrix theory, the AdS/CFT duality and its generalizations.
It then covers String geometry and flux compactifications, applications to cosmology and particle physics, black holes in String Theory and M-theory, and the microscopic origin of black-hole entropy.
It introduces the basics of perturbative String theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field Theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, String dualities and M-theory.
This book guides the reader from the basics of String Theory to recent developments.
Description String Theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics