Plan for 8 821 String Theory as of 11 29 07 with relevant reading material 1 overview Joe 1 1 3 1 try GSW ch 1 Uranga s overview lectures 2 classical bosonic strings mostly GSW 2 1 Joe 1 2 3 why and how do we impose virasoro constraints some of GSW 2 2 solve them using lightcone gauge quantization find the spectrum of the open string Joe 1 3 4 GSW 2 3 use zeta function regularization to find the critical dimension at which the light cone quantization gives a lorentz invariant spectrum 4 closed string spectrum in LCG high energy density of states GSW p 117 et seq Joe vI p 320 321 there is more to life than 26 d flat space torus compactification the non CFT parts of Joe 8 1 8 3 Uranga s lecture 3 the spectrum of the bosonic string on a circle enhanced gauge symmetry at R T duality 5 how do the spacetime EoM arise from 2d perspective and why strings in background fields effect of dilaton strings are charged under B beta functions GSW 3 1 3 4 Joe ch 3 2 3 3 3 7 6 gauge fixing of polyakov path integral to discover another example of a 2d CFT Joe 3 3 GSW 3 1 systematic discussion of euclidean 2d CFT part 1 Peskin s lectures linked on webpage 2 3 1 4 3 Joe Ch 2 7 CFT part 2 Ginsparg CFT notes 1 2 3 6 Try 4 Joe Chapter 2 again GSW Chapter 3 note that the CFT is hidden in 3 2 entitled BRST Quantization 8 In what sense is c 6 26 a conformal anomaly Joe 3 4 Peskin TASI lectures p 19 et seq the bc ghost system as a CFT Joe 2 5 2 7 9 BRST quantization Joe 4 2 4 GSW 3 2 Peskin 4 5 Ghost zeromodes and the measure for moduli Peskin 4 5 Joe ch 5 10 where to put the ghosts JP 5 3 closed string tree level amplitudes JP 6 1 2 3 6 11 one loop amplitudes modular invariance Peskin 8 1 2 JP ch 7 Uranga lecture 5 12 open strings D branes worldvolume gauge theory JP ch 6 2 4 5 8 6 8 7 JP TASI lectures on D branes hep th 9611050 1 2 13 factorization of the annulus D brane tension JP 7 4 8 7 hep th 9611050 2 14 superstring worldsheet technology JP ch 10 Peskin 3 2 7 1 Uranga lecture 7 GSW ch 4 1 15 superstring spectrum Lust and Theisen ch 7 8 16 spin structures and GSO JP ch 10 5 7 Lust and Theisen ch 9 heterosis JP ch 11 17 bosonization Ramond vertex operators JP 10 2 3 18 the superconformal ghosts save the day superstring scattering JP 10 4 12 3 5 19 D branes of the superstring JP chapter 13 14 4 hep th 9611050 3 4 see also 5 20 orientifolds and type I JP v I pp 189 192 226 229 8 8 v II pp 29 31 10 8 13 2 Uranga chapter 10 21 tadpole cancellation and anomalies JP 10 8 Uranga chapter 10 JP 12 1 2 22 Calabi Yau compactification GSW chapter 15 23 supersymmetric sigma models and the de rham complex Witten NPB202 1982 253 10 heterotic on CY unification GSW chapter 14 16 15 6 24 the conifold and topology change 25 AdS CFT 26 flux vacua throats the potential for moduli 27 orbifolds 28 GLSM 29 black hole microstates 30 noncritical strings 2
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