Category Archives: Pre-Class Reading

Lecture 14 Mar

Posted on 2008/03/12 by kiwinerd

Today we talked about material Z-bach focuses on in Chapter 17. We explained in detail T-duality on closed and open strings propagating on R1,8 x S1, flat spacetime times a circle. The important bits were: (a) solving the string wave … Continue reading →

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Lecture 12 Mar

Posted on 2008/03/07 by kiwinerd

Based on material in Chapter 14 of Zwiebach, we wrapped up the story of the mass of fundamental open strings stretched between stacks of Dp and Dq branes (StringsBetweenDpAndDqBranes). We also gave a first introduction to T-duality (IntroducingTduality). Before Friday’s … Continue reading →

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Reading Pre-Class

Posted on 2008/01/16 by kiwinerd

Hi all, One message I received loud and clear from various students today (in a variety of ways) was that different students prefer different paces of computation in class. This range of pace-preferences is likely to remain, or grow – … Continue reading →

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