"Version: 20170301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction : the Standard Models -- 2. The Planck scale--compactification3. Testing theories in physics, including string theories -- 3.1. Kaluza-Klein theories, anomalies, and the physics of extra dimensions4. The mass-ener…
Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Gauge theories -- Gauge gravity dualityQuantum phase transitions -- Quantum Ising model -- XY model -- Other modelsGravitation -- Basics of general relativity -- Anti-de Sitter spaceAdS/CFT correspondence -- Formalism -- Scalar fields -- Finite temperature -- Finite chemical potentialDynamics -- Linear response t…
"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. What we probably know. 1. The Standard Models--overview and perspective -- 1.1. The large number of solutions to string/M-theory is not an obstacle to finding a theory that describes nature -- 1.2. String theorists study theories, not phenomena -- 1.3. Nutcracker -- 1.4. Why the Standard Model is true--it will be …
"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 …