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出版社: 世界图书出版公司; 第1版 (2011年1月1日)

外文书名: String Theory and M-Theory

平装: 739页

正文语种: 英语

开本: 16

ISBN: 7510029740, 9787510029745

条形码: 9787510029745

尺寸: 25.8 x 18.2 x 3.4 cm

重量: 1.3 Kg

作者简介

作者：（美国）贝克尔（Katrin Becher）

内容简介

《弦论和M理论导论(英文版)》内容简介：String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of moderntheoretical physics. It was developed in the late 1960s for the purpose of de- scribing the strong nuclear force. Problems were encountered that prevented this program from attaining complete success. In particular, it was realized that the spectrum of a fundamental string contains an undesired massless spimtwo particle. Quantum chromodynamics eventually proved to be the correct theory for describing the strong force and the properties of hadrons. New doors opened for string theory when in 1974 it was proposed to identify the massless spin-two particle in the string's spectrum with the graviton, the quantum of gravitation. String theory became then the most promising can didate for a quantum theory of gravity unified with the other forces and has developed into one of the most fascinating theories of high-energy physics.

目录

Preface

1 Introduction

1.1 Historical origins

1.2 General features

1.3 Basic string theory

1.4 Modern developments in superstring theory

2 The bosonic string

2.1 p-brane actions

2.2 The string action

2.3 String sigma-model action: the classical theory

2.4 Canonical quantization

2.5 Light-cone gauge quantization

3 Conformal field theory and string interactions

3.1 Conformal field theory

3.2 BRST quantization

3.3 Background fields

3.4 Vertex operators

3.5 The structure of string perturbation theory

3.6 The linear-dilaton vacuum and noncritical strings

3.7 Witten's open-string field theory

4 Strings with world-sheet supersymmetry

4.1 Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz strings

4.2 Global world-sheet supersymmetry

4.3 Constraint equations and conformal invariance

4.4 Boundary conditions and mode expansions

4.5 Canonical quantization of the RNS string

4.6 Light-cone gauge quantization of the RNS string

4.7 SCFT and BRST

5 Strings with space-time Supersymmetry

5.1 The D0-brane action

5.2 The supersymmetric string action

5.3 Quantization of the GS action

5.4 Gauge anomalies and their cancellation

6 T-duality and D-branes

6.1 The bosonic string and Dp-branes

6.2 D-branes in type II superstring theories

6.3 Type I superstring theory

6.4 T-duality in the presence of background fields

6.5 World-volume actions for D-branes

7 The heterotic string

7.1 Nonabelian gauge symmetry in string theory

7.2 Fermionic construction of the heterotic string

7.3 Toroidal compactification

7.4 Bosonic construction of the heterotic string

8 M-theory and string duality

8.1 Low-energy effective actions

8.2 S-duality

8.3 M-theory

8.4 M-theory dualities

9 String geometry

9.1 Orbifolds

9.2 Calabi-Yau manifolds: mathematical properties

9.3 Examples of Calabi-Yau manifolds

9.4 Calabi-Yau compactifications of the heterotic string

9.5 Deformations of Calabi-Yau manifolds

9.6 Special geometry

9.7 Type IIA and type IIB on Calabi-Yau three-folds

9.8 Nonperturbative effects in Calabi-Yau compactifications

9.9 Mirror symmetry

9.10 Heterotic string theory on Calabi-Yau three-folds

9.11 K3 compactifications and more string dualities

9.12 Manifolds with G2 and Spin(7) holonomy

10 Flux compactifications

10.1 Flux compactifications and Calabi-Yau four-folds

10.2 Flux compactifications of the type IIB theory

10.3 Moduli stabilization

10.4 Fluxes, torsion and heterotic strings

10.5 The strongly coupled heterotic string

10.6 The landscape

10.7 Fluxes and cosmology

11 Black holes in string theory

11.1 Black holes in general relativity

11.2 Black-hole thermodynamics

11.3 Black holes in string theory

11.4 Statistical derivation of the entropy

11.5 The attractor mechanism

11.6 Small BPS black holes in four dimensions

12 Gauge theory/string theory dualities

12.1 Black-brane solutions in string theory and M-theory

12.2 Matrix theory

12.3 The AdS/CFT correspondence

12.4 Gauge/string duality for the conifold and generalizations

12.5 Plane-wave space-times and their duals

12.6 Geometric transitions

Bibliographic discussion

Bibliography

Index