弦论和M理论导论

图书标准信息

• 作者 [美]贝克尔 著
• 出版社 世界图书出版公司
• 出版时间 2011-01
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9787510029745
• 定价 99.00元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 739页

【内容简介】

Stringtheoryisoneofthemostexcitingandchallengingareasofmoderntheoreticalphysics.Itwasdevelopedinthelate1960sforthepurposeofde-scribingthestrongnuclearforce.Problemswereencounteredthatpreventedthisprogramfromattainingcompletesuccess.Inparticular，itwasrealizedthatthedpectrumofafundamentalstringcontainsanundesiredmasslessspin-twoparticle.Quantumchromodynamicseventuallyprovedtobethecorrecttheoryfordescribingthestrongforceandthepropertiesofhadrons，Newdoorsopenedforstringtheorywhenin1974itwasproposedtoidentifythemasslessspin-twoparticleinthestringsspectrumwiththegraviton，thequantumofgravitation.Stringtheorybecamethenthemostpromisingcan-didateforaquantumtheoryofgravityunifiedwiththeotherforcesandhasdevelopedintooneofthemostfascinatingthe6riesofhigh-energyphysics.

【目录】

preface
1introduction
1.1historicalorigins
1.2generalfeatures
1.3basicstringtheory
1.4moderndevelopmentsinsuperstringtheory

2thebosonicstring
2.1p-braneactions
2.2thestringaction
2.3stringsigma-modelaction：theclassicaltheory
2.4canonicalquantization
2.5light-conegaugequantization

3conformalfieldtheoryandstringinteractions
3.1conformalfieldtheory
3.2brstquantization
3.3backgroundfields
3.4vertexoperators
3.5thestructureofstringperturbationtheory
3.6thelinear-dilatonvacuumandnoncriticalstrings
3.7wittensopen-stringfieldtheory

4stringswithworld-sheetsupersymmetry
4.1ramond-neveu-schwarzstrings
4.2globalworld-sheetsupersymmetry
4.3constraintequationsmadconformalinvaxiance
4.4boundaryconditionsandmodeexpansions
4.5canonicalquantizationofthernsstring
4.6light-conegaugequantizationofthernsstring
4.7scftandbrst

5stringswithspace-timesupersymmetry
5.1thedo-braneaction
5.2thesupersymmetricstringaction
5.3quantizationofthegsaction
5.4gaugeanomaliesandtheircancellation

6t-dualityandd-branes
6.1thebosonicstringanddp-branes
6.2d-branesintypeiisuperstringtheories
6.3typeisuperstringtheory
6.4t-dualityinthepresenceofbackgroundfields
6.5world-volumeactionsford-branes

7theheteroticstring
7.1nonabeliangaugesymmetryinstringtheory
7.2fermionicconstructionoftheheteroticstring
7.3toroidalcompactification
7.4bosonicconstructionoftheheteroticstring

8m-theoryandstringduality
8.1low-energyeffectiveactions
8.2s-duality
8.3m-theory
8.4m-theorydualities

9stringgeometry
9.1orbifolds
9.2calabi-yaumanifolds：mathematicalproperties
9.3examplesofcalabi-yaumanifolds
9.4calabi-yaucompactificationsoftheheteroticstring
9.5deformationsofcalabi-yaumanifolds
9.6specialgeometry
9.7typeiiaandtypeiiboncalabi-yauthree-folds
9.8nonperturbativeeffectsincalabi-yaucompactifications
9.9mirrorsymmetry
9.10heteroticstringtheoryoncalabi-yauthree-folds
9.11k3compactificationsandmorestringdualities
9.12manifoldswithg2andspin（7）holonomy

10fluxcompactifications
10.1fluxcompactificationsandcalabi-yaufour-folds
10.2fluxcompactificationsofthetypeiibtheory
10.3modulistabilization
10.4fluxes，torsionandheteroticstrings
10.5thestronglycoupledheteroticstring
10.6thelandscape
10.7fluxesandcosmology

11blackholesinstringtheory
11.1blackholesingeneralrelativity
11.2black-holethermodynamics
11.3blackholesinstringtheory
11.4statisticalderivationoftheentropy
11.5theattractormechanism
11.6smallbpsblackholesinfourdimensions

12gaugetheory/stringtheorydualities
12.1black-branesolutionsinstringtheoryandm-theory
12.2matrixtheory
12.3theads/cftcorrespondence
12.4gauge/stringdualityfortheconifoldandgeneralizations
12.5plane-wavespace-timesandtheirduals
12.6geometrictransitions
bibliographicdiscussion
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