Blumenhagen, Ralph <br/><br/>
Basic concepts of string theory 

 - Berlin:  Springer,  2013. 
 - xii, 782 p.: ill.;  hb;  25 cm. 
 - Theoretical and mathematical physics. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> The purpose of this book is to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in string theory. It is intended as a textbook in the sense that, starting from the basics, the material is presented in a pedagogical and self-contained fashion. The emphasis is on the world-sheet perspective of closed strings and of open strings ending on D-branes, where two-dimensional conformal field theory is the main tool. Compactifications of string theory, with and without fluxes, and string dualities are also discussed from the space-time point of view, i.e. in geometric language. End-of-chapter references have been added to guide the reader intending to pursue further studies or to start research in the topics covered by this book. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783642294969 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Physics<br/>Modern physics<br/>Classical Bosonic String<br/>Relativistic Particle<br/>Canonical Quantization<br/>Path Integral<br/>String Theory<br/>Free Boson<br/>Ghost System<br/>Perturbation Theory<br/>Partition Function<br/>Superconformal Gauge<br/>Canonical Quantization<br/>Boundary <br/>Toroidal Compactification<br/>Fermionic Construction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>539.7258  / BLU