String Theory Compactifications
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The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification.
The text starts with a very brief introduction to string theory, first working out its massless spectrum and showing how the condition on the number of dimensions arises. It then dwells on the different possible internal manifolds, from the simplest to the most relevant phenomenologically, thereby showing that the most elegant description is through an extension of ordinary Riemannian geometry termed generalized geometry, which was first introduced by Hitchin.
Last but not least, the authors review open problems in string phenomenology, such as the embedding of the Standard Model and obtaining de Sitter solutions.
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Inhalt
Chapter 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to String Theory.- Chapter 2 Lecture 2: Compactications on tori.- Chapter 3 Lecture 3: Calabi-Yau Compactications.- Chapter 4 Lecture 4: Fluxes and Generalized Geometry.- Chapter 5 Lecture 5: 4D Eective actions for compactications on manifolds of reduced structure.- Chapter 6 Lecture 6: Open problems in phenomenology
Weitere Informationen
- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09783319543154
- Lesemotiv Verstehen
- Genre Physics
- Auflage 1st ed. 2017
- Anzahl Seiten 74
- Herausgeber Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Größe H235mm x B155mm
- Jahr 2017
- EAN 9783319543154
- Format Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
- ISBN 978-3-319-54315-4
- Veröffentlichung 27.03.2017
- Titel String Theory Compactifications
- Autor Mariana Graña , Hagen Triendl
- Untertitel SpringerBriefs in Physics
- Gewicht 1416g
- Sprache Englisch