String Theory Compactifications
The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure
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Mariana Graña Hagen Triendl
String Theory Compactifications
123
SpringerBriefs in Physics Editorial Board Egor Babaev, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Malcolm Bremer, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Xavier Calmet, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Francesca Di Lodovico, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Pablo D. Esquinazi, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Maarten Hoogerland, Universiy of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Eric Le Ru, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, New Zealand Hans-Joachim Lewerenz, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA James Overduin, Towson University, Towson, USA Vesselin Petkov, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Charles H.-T. Wang, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Andrew Whitaker, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK Stefan Theisen, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphys, Golm, Germany
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Mariana Graña Hagen Triendl •
String Theory Compactifications
123
Hagen Triendl Imperial College London London UK
Mariana Graña Institut de Physique Théorique CEA/Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex France
ISSN 2191-5423 SpringerBriefs in Physics ISBN 978-3-319-54315-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54316-1
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Contents
String Theory Compactifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to String Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Bosonic Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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