String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction

by Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker, John H. Schwarz

String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. 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. 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 concludes with Matrix theory, the AdS/CFT duality and its generalizations. 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 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.

Genres: Physics, Science, Textbooks, Mathematics

739 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Z. Aroosha Dehghan · Rating 4 out of 5]

نظریه‌ی ریسمان یکی از هیجان‌انگیزترین و چالشی‌ترین مباحثیه که در فیزیک مدرن مطرح میشه. این کتاب هم درباره‌ی همین موضوع چالش‌برانگیزه اما متاسفانه نمیشه همینجوری برید سرش. این کتاب کاملا دانشگاهی نوشته شده و نمیشه بدون پیش‌نیاز فهمیدش. پس اگر دانشجوی فیزیک نبودید و نیستید، قبل از این کتاب حتما درباره‌ی فیزیک ذرات بنیادی (فیزیک انرژی‌های بالا)، کیهان‌شناسی و نجوم، نسبیت، ابرتقارن‌های فضا-زمان و نظریه‌ی میدان بخونید. تو این کتاب بعد از این مطرح کردن نظریه‌ی ریسمان به هندسه‌ی اون، نقشش در کیهان‌شناسی و فیزیک ذرات، سیاهچاله‌ها، نظریه‌ی ماتریکس و ریشه‌ی میکروسکوپی انتروپی سیاهچاله‌ها هم پرداخته شده.
این کتاب ترجمه نشده و به سختی هم در بازار کتاب پیدا میشه.
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[Jamie McIntire · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your into this you'll like this book.

[greta · Rating 4 out of 5]

amo string theory 😫

[Joe Baldoni Karlik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic text. If I had to recommend a single resource from which to really learn string theory, this would be it. Its treatment of string geometry and flux compactifications is particularly good. If I had one complaint, it goes a little fast with some of the early material doing a bit of hand waving around questions such as critical dimensionality and zero-point energies (Polchinski Ch 2, 3, and 10 fill in these details nicely). Overall, I strongly recommend this book.

[Skymeson Rolnick]

String theory is the coolest. Too bad I don't understand it yet.

[Joel Brumfield]

the go to book on string theory and M theory.

[Lulu]

String theory