Introduction to superstrings

zbMath0655.58001MaRDI QIDQ1210843

Michio Kaku

Publication date: 5 June 1993

Published in: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorypath integralsgauge theorystring field theorysuperstringstringcovariant string theorypoint particle theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01)

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