PHY2406F: String Theory

Syllabus

Topics to be covered are likely to include:-

• Non-relativistic and relativistic classical particles
• Non-relativistic and relativistic classical strings
• Symmetry, conserved currents; light-cone gauge
• Quantum relativistic strings; free spectrum
• D-branes and gauge fields
• T-duality, circle compactification
• String thermodynamics, the Hagedorn transition
• Black holes and black branes
• Remarks about superstrings; dualities; ...

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