String Theory And M-Theory

String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to r... » 

String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments. It introduces the basics of perturbative string theory, world-sheet supersymmetry, space-time supersymmetry, conformal field theory and the heterotic string, before describing modern developments, including D-branes, string dualities and M-theory. It concludes with Matrix theory, the AdS/CFT duality and its generalizations. «