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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 called string compactification. The text sta...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerBriefs in Physics,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54316-1 |
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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 called string compactification. The text starts with a very brief introduction to string theory, first working out its massless spectrum and showing how the condition on the number of dimensions arises. It then dwells on the different possible internal manifolds, from the simplest to the most relevant phenomenologically, thereby showing tha |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (VII, 74 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319543161 |
| Index Number: | QC174 |
| CLC: | O413.3 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to String Theory -- Chapter 2 Lecture 2: Compacti cations on tori -- Chapter 3 Lecture 3: Calabi-Yau Compacti cations -- Chapter 4 Lecture 4: Fluxes and Generalized Geometry -- Chapter 5 Lecture 5: 4D E ective actions for compacti cations on manifolds of reduced structure -- Chapter 6 Lecture 6: Open problems in phenomenology . |