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By Joseph Polchinski

String concept includes volumes which offer a accomplished and pedagogic account of the topic. quantity 1, first released in 1998, offers a radical creation to the bosonic string. the 1st 4 chapters introduce the important rules of string conception, the instruments of conformal box concept and of the Polyakov course vital, and the covariant quantization of the string. the following 3 chapters deal with string interactions: the overall formalism, and unique remedies of the tree point and one loop amplitudes. bankruptcy 8 covers toroidal compactification and plenty of vital elements of string physics, comparable to T-duality and D-branes. bankruptcy 9 treats higher-order amplitudes, together with an research in their finiteness and unitarity, and numerous nonperturbative principles. An appendix giving a brief direction on direction imperative equipment is integrated. this is often a necessary textual content and reference for graduate scholars and researchers attracted to smooth superstring theory.

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