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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 called string compactification. The text sta...

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Main Authors: Gra a, Mariana (Author)
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Triendl, Hagen
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
Subjects:
Physics.
Mathematical physics.
Quantum field theory.
String theory.
Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.
Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54316-1
Summary: 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 that the most elegant description is through an extension of ordinary Riemannian geometry termed generalized geometry, which was first introduced by Hitchin. Last but not least, the authors review open problems in string phenomenology, such as the embedding of the Standard Model and obtaining de Sitter solutions.
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 .

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