"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Concepts in special relativity -- 1.1. Galilean relativity -- 1.2. Inertial frames -- 1.3. Special relativity -- 1.4. Velocity addition, length contraction, and time dilation -- 1.5. Questions2. Tensors in relativity -- 2.1. Motivation -…
"Version: 20181001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. String theory. 2. String theory -- 2.1. Actions, symmetries and solutions -- 2.2. Canonical quantization and Virasoro algebra -- 2.3. Spurious states and critical strings -- 2.4. Lightcone gauge quantization -- 2.5. Exercises3. Polyakov path integral -- 3.1. Gauge fixing and Fadeev-Popov ghosts …