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| ====== String Theory ====== | ====== String Theory ====== | ||
| - | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
| - | <blockquote>String theory, for vacua with non-compact dimensions, ‘predicts’ | ||
| - | gravity and at least one neutral scalar, the dilaton, antisymmetric tensors of different ranks and | ||
| - | usually also charged matter, and supersymmetry (see for instance [1]). <cite>A Comment on Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincar´e Group and Perturbative String Theory by Anamarıa Font et. al.</cite></blockquote> | ||
| - | ---- | ||
| - | See also: [[http://inspirehep.net/record/456943?ln=de|Duality, space-time and quantum mechanics]] by Edward Witten | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
| - | <tabbox Layman> | + | |
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| * [[http://www.ams.org/notices/199809/witten.pdf|Magic, Mystery, and Matrix]] by Edward Witten | * [[http://www.ams.org/notices/199809/witten.pdf|Magic, Mystery, and Matrix]] by Edward Witten | ||
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| - | <tabbox Student> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
| - | * Ron Maimon, [[https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/14504|What is a brief formulation of string theory?]], URL (version: 2011-09-10): | + | * Ron Maimon, [[https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/14504|What is a brief formulation of string theory?]] |
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| **The best introductory textbooks are:** | **The best introductory textbooks are:** | ||
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| * [[http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string.html|Lectures on String Theory]] by D. Tong | * [[http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string.html|Lectures on String Theory]] by D. Tong | ||
| + | ---- | ||
| ** The standard textbooks are:** | ** The standard textbooks are:** | ||
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| * Superstring theory by Green, Schwarz, Witten | * Superstring theory by Green, Schwarz, Witten | ||
| * String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction by Becker, Becker, Schwarz | * String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction by Becker, Becker, Schwarz | ||
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| + | ---- | ||
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| + | **Further Resources** | ||
| + | |||
| + | * www.superstringtheory.com - "The official String Theory website" | ||
| + | * www.stringwiki.org - the String Theory Wiki | ||
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| - | <tabbox Researcher> | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
| <note tip> | <note tip> | ||
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| - | <tabbox Examples> | + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> |
| + | <blockquote>String theory, for vacua with non-compact dimensions, ‘predicts’ | ||
| + | gravity and at least one neutral scalar, the dilaton, antisymmetric tensors of different ranks and | ||
| + | usually also charged matter, and supersymmetry (see for instance [1]). <cite>A Comment on Continuous Spin Representations of the Poincar´e Group and Perturbative String Theory by Anamarıa Font et. al.</cite></blockquote> | ||
| - | --> Example1# | + | ---- |
| - | + | See also: | |
| - | <-- | + | * [[http://inspirehep.net/record/456943?ln=de|Duality, space-time and quantum mechanics]] by Edward Witten |
| - | + | * [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02477.pdf|String theory to the rescue]] by Joseph Polchinsky | |
| - | --> Example2:# | + | |
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| - | <-- | + | |
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| - | <tabbox History> | + | |
| <tabbox Criticism> | <tabbox Criticism> | ||
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