超弦理論１：入門（刊行２５周年記念版） Superstring Theory : 25th Anniversary Edition (Superstring Theory 2 Volume Hardback Set)

Green, Michael B./ Schwarz, John H./ Witten, Edward

Cambridge University Press（2012/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 482 p.／サイズ 57 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781107029118
• DDC分類 539.7258

基本説明

Volume 1 provides a self-contained introduction to superstrings. Featuring a new Preface, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory.

Full Description

Twenty-five years ago, Michael Green, John Schwarz, and Edward Witten wrote two volumes on string theory. Published during a period of rapid progress in this subject, these volumes were highly influential for a generation of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made in the field since then, the systematic exposition of the foundations of superstring theory presented in these volumes is just as relevant today as when first published. A self-contained introduction to superstrings, Volume 1 begins with an elementary treatment of the bosonic string, before describing the incorporation of additional degrees of freedom: fermionic degrees of freedom leading to supersymmetry and internal quantum numbers leading to gauge interactions. A detailed discussion of the evaluation of tree-approximation scattering amplitudes is also given. Featuring a new preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory.

Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Free bosonic strings; 3. Modern covariant quantization; 4. World-sheet supersymmetry in string theory; 5. Space-time supersymmetry in string theory; 6. Nonabelian gauge symmetry; 7. Tree amplitudes; Bibliography; Index.