The Beginning of String Theory: A Historical Sketch

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-74233-3_5MaRDI QIDQ3542518zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Schwimmer, Paolo Di Vecchia

Publication date 1 December 2008

Published in Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3940

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: In this note we follow the historical development of the ideas that led to the formulation of String Theory. We start from the inspired guess of Veneziano and its extension to the scattering of $N$ scalar particles, then we describe how the study of its factorization properties allowed to identify the physical spectrum making the string worldsheet manifest and finally we discuss how the critical values of the intercept of the Regge trajectory and of the critical dimension were fixed to 1 and 26.

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