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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> | ||
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- | 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 | ||
- | <tabbox Layman> | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
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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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* 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** | ||
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+ | * www.superstringtheory.com - "The official String Theory website" | ||
+ | * www.stringwiki.org - the String Theory Wiki | ||
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- | <tabbox Researcher> | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
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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> |