Introduction to String Theory; M423;

Instructor: Alon Faraggi; TP120;
       Phone: 0151 794 3774;
       Email: faraggi@amtp.liv.ac.uk

Lectures:
Monday 09:00 Room 211 Math Building.
Wednesday 10:00 Room 105 Math Building.
Thursday 11:00 Room 105 Math Building.
Thursday 13:00 Room 105 Math building.

webpage: http://www.maths.liv.ac.uk/TheorPhys/people/staff/faraggi/teaching/str/stcourse09.html

Lecture notes

Lectures week 1

Lectures week 2

Lectures week 3 and week 4

Lectures week 5 and week 6

Lectures week 7 and week 8

Lectures week 9 and week 10

Problem sets

H.W. set 1 sols set 1

H.W. set 2 sols set 2

H.W. set 3 sols set 3

H.W. set 4 sols set 4

H.W. set 5 sols set 5

H.W. set 6 sols set 6

H.W. set 7 sols set 7

H.W. set 8 sols set 8

H.W. set 9 sols set 9

H.W. set 10 sols set 10

Course Description

I. General outline:

The course aim is introduction to string theory.

Assessment:   The grade will be based on: final exam 100%;

II. Syllabus:

1. The road to string unification

2. Special relativity and higher dimensions

3. Electromagnestism in various dimensions

4. Nonrelativistic strings

5. The relativistic point particles

6. Relativistic string

7. World-sheet currents

8. Light-cone relativistic string

9. Light-cone fields and particles

10. The relativistic quantum point particle

11. Relativistic quantum open string

12. String charge, electric charge and particle physics

13. T-duality and of closed string

14. String interactions and Riemann surfaces

III. References

The main reference for this course is: A First Course in String Theory by Barton Zwiebach

Additional refences include:

String theory by Dieter Lust and Stefan Thiesen
Superstring theory by Michael Green, John Schwarz and Edward Witten
String theory and M-theory by Katherin Becker, Melanie Becker and John Schwarz