Superstring Theory
25th Anniversary Edition

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition featuring a new Preface, invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics.

Michael B. Green (Author), John H. Schwarz (Author), Edward Witten (Author)

9781107029132, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 July 2012

610 pages, 68 b/w illus.
23.1 x 16 x 3.8 cm, 0.91 kg

'… these books still belong on the essential reading list for anyone wanting to gain a deep understanding of the subject.' Douglas J. Smith, Mathematical Reviews

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. Volume 2 is concerned with the evaluation of one-loop amplitudes, the study of anomalies and phenomenology. It examines the low energy effective field theory analysis of anomalies, the emergence of the gauge groups E8 x E8 and SO(32) and the four-dimensional physics that arises by compactification of six extra dimensions. Featuring a new Preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in high energy physics and astrophysics, as well as mathematicians.

Preface
8. One-loop diagrams in the bosonic string theory
9. One-loop diagrams in superstring theory
10. The gauge anomaly in type I superstring theory
11. Functional methods in the light-cone gauge
12. Some differential geometry
13. Low-energy effective action
14. Compactification of higher dimensions
15. Some algebraic geometry
16. Models of low-energy supersymmetry
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematical physics [PHU]