Introduction to String Theory; M423;
Instructor: Alon Faraggi; TP120;
Phone: 0151 794 3774;
Email: faraggi@amtp.liv.ac.uk
Lectures:
Wednesday 10:00 Room 211 Math Building.
Wednesday 11:00 Room 211 Math Building.
Thursday 13:00 Room 117 Math building.
Thursday 14:00 Room 117 Math building.
Office hours: Tue 16:00; Wed; 14:00
webpage:
http://www.maths.liv.ac.uk/TheorPhys/people/staff/faraggi/teaching/str/stcourse18.html
Lecture notes
These are the lecture notes of the module "Introduction to String Theory".
Below these notes are the lecture notes of the module
"Introduction to Modern Particle Physics".
Problem sets
Past exams
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.
The nonrelativistic strings
5.
The relativistic point particle
6.
The classical relativistic string
7.
The Polyakov action
8.
World-sheet currents
9.
Solutions of the open and closed string equations of motion
10.
The quantum harmonic oscillator
11.
The relativistic quantum open and closed string
12.
The light-cone relativistic string
13.
Covariant and light-cone quantization
14.
T-duality of closed string
III. References
The main reference for this course is:
A First Course in String Theory by Barton Zwiebach
Additional refences include:
String theory by Ralf Blumenhagen, 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