String theory

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Introduction

• History
• Overview

Bosonic string theory

• Relativistic point particle
• Bosonic string

Superstring theory

• Supersymmetric point particle
• RNS superstring
• GS superstring
• Heterotic string

Duality

• T-duality
• S-duality

Branes

• D-branes
• Chan-paton factors
• Dirac-Born-Infeld action
• Anomalous coupling
• World-volume physics
• NS-branes
• Interactions

Interacting string theory

• Path integral
• Interactions
• Effective field theories
• String theory and gravity
• Green-Schwarz mechanism
• KLT relations
• Worldsheet instantons

Gauge/string duality

• AdS-CFT correspondence
• Holographic QCD
• Holographic entanglement entropy
• Holographic renormalization

Other topics

• Gravitational physics
• String field theory
• Compactification

Matrix models

• c=1 matrix model
• BFSS model
• IKKT model

M-theory

• BFSS conjecture
• Matrix theory
• Non-commutative string theory

Resources

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• Books
• Papers