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OverviewTwenty-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. This two-volume set features a new Preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances. 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. Volume 2 is concerned with the evaluation of one-loop amplitudes, the study of anomalies and phenomenology. These books are invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory, high energy physics and astrophysics, as well as mathematicians. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael B. Green (University of Cambridge) , John H. Schwarz (California Institute of Technology) , Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 6.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.800kg ISBN: 9781107030312ISBN 10: 1107030315 Pages: 1092 Publication Date: 26 July 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Mixed media product Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsVolume 1: 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; Volume 2: 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.Reviews'Both volumes of Superstring Theory are likely to remain standard reference works for years to come.' Paul K. Townsend, Nature Author InformationMichael B. Green is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. John H. Schwarz is the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. Edward Witten is the Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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