弦论（第1卷）

作者: JosephPolchinski 著

出版社: 世界图书出版公司

出版时间: 2004-11

版次: 1

ISBN: 9787506266406

定价: 73.00

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 402页

分类: 自然科学

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　　WhenIfirstdecidedtowriteabookonstringtheory，morethantenyearsago，mymemoriesofmystudentyearsweremuchmorevividthantheyaretoday.Still，Irememberthatoneofthegreatestpleasureswasfindingatextthatmadeadifficultsubjectaccessible，andIhopedtoprovidethesameforstringtheory.
　　Thus，myfirstpurposewastogiveacoherentintroductiontostringtheory，basedonthePolyakovpathintegralandconformalfieldtheory.Nopreviousknowledgeofstringtheoryisassumed.Idoassumethatthereaderisfamiliarwiththecentralideasofgeneralrelativity，suchasmetricsandcurvature，andwiththeideasofquantumfieldtheorythroughnon-Abeliangaugesymmetry.Originallyafullcourseofquantumfieldtheorywasassumedasaprerequisite，butitbecameclearthatmanystudentswereeagertolearnstringtheoryassoonaspossible，andthatothershadtakencoursesonquantumfieldtheorythatdidnotemphasizethetoolsneededforstringtheory.Ihavethereforetriedtogiveaself-containedintroductiontothosetools.
　　Asecondpurposewastoshowhowsomeofthesimplestfour-dimensionalstringtheoriesconnectwithpreviousideasforunifyingtheStandardModel，andtocollectgeneralresultsonthephysicsoffour-dimensionalstringtheoriesasderivedfromworld-sheetandspacetimesymmetries.Newdevelopmentshaveledtoathirdgoal，whichistointro-ducetherecentdiscoveriesconcerningstringduality，M-theory，D-branes，andblackholeentropy.
　　本书为英文版。　　JosephPolchinskireceivedhisPh.D.fromtheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeleyin1980.AfterpostdoctoralfellowshipsattheStanfordLinearAcceleratorCenterandHarvard,heJoinedthefacultyattheUniversityofTexasatAustinin1984,movingtohispresentpositionofProfessorofPhysicsattheUniversityofCalifronaatSantabarbara,andPermanentMemberoftheInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics,in1992. Foreword
Preface
Notation
1Afirstlookatstrings
1.1Whystrings?
1.2Actionprinciples
1.3Theopenstringspectrum
1.4Closedandunorientedstrings
Exercises
2Conformalfieldtheory
2.1Masslessscalarsintwodimensions
2.2Theoperatorproductexpansion
2.3WardidentitiesandNoetherstheorem
2.4Conformalinvariance
2.5FreeCFTs
2.6TheVirasoroalgebra
2.7Modeexpansions
2.8Vertexoperators
2.9Moreonstatesandoperators
Exercises
3Thepolyakovpathintegral
3.1Sumsoverworld-sheets
3.2ThePolyakovpathingegral
3.3Gaugefixing
3.4TheWeylanomaly
3.5Scatteringamplitudes
3.6Vertexoperators
3.7Stringsincurvedspacetime
Exercises
4Thestringspectrum
4.1Oldcovariantquantization
4.2BRSTquantization
4.3BRSTquantizationofthestring
4.4Theno-ghosttheorem
Exercises
5ThestringS-matrix
5.1Thecircleandthetorus
5.2ModuliandRiemannsurfaces
5.3Themeasureformoduli
5.4Moreaboutthemeasure
Exercises
6Tree-levelamplitudes
7One-loopamplitudes
8ToroidalcompactificationandT-duality
AppendxA:Ashortcourseonpathintegrals
References
Glossary
Index
内容简介:
　　WhenIfirstdecidedtowriteabookonstringtheory，morethantenyearsago，mymemoriesofmystudentyearsweremuchmorevividthantheyaretoday.Still，Irememberthatoneofthegreatestpleasureswasfindingatextthatmadeadifficultsubjectaccessible，andIhopedtoprovidethesameforstringtheory.
　　Thus，myfirstpurposewastogiveacoherentintroductiontostringtheory，basedonthePolyakovpathintegralandconformalfieldtheory.Nopreviousknowledgeofstringtheoryisassumed.Idoassumethatthereaderisfamiliarwiththecentralideasofgeneralrelativity，suchasmetricsandcurvature，andwiththeideasofquantumfieldtheorythroughnon-Abeliangaugesymmetry.Originallyafullcourseofquantumfieldtheorywasassumedasaprerequisite，butitbecameclearthatmanystudentswereeagertolearnstringtheoryassoonaspossible，andthatothershadtakencoursesonquantumfieldtheorythatdidnotemphasizethetoolsneededforstringtheory.Ihavethereforetriedtogiveaself-containedintroductiontothosetools.
　　Asecondpurposewastoshowhowsomeofthesimplestfour-dimensionalstringtheoriesconnectwithpreviousideasforunifyingtheStandardModel，andtocollectgeneralresultsonthephysicsoffour-dimensionalstringtheoriesasderivedfromworld-sheetandspacetimesymmetries.Newdevelopmentshaveledtoathirdgoal，whichistointro-ducetherecentdiscoveriesconcerningstringduality，M-theory，D-branes，andblackholeentropy.
　　本书为英文版。
作者简介:
　　JosephPolchinskireceivedhisPh.D.fromtheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeleyin1980.AfterpostdoctoralfellowshipsattheStanfordLinearAcceleratorCenterandHarvard,heJoinedthefacultyattheUniversityofTexasatAustinin1984,movingtohispresentpositionofProfessorofPhysicsattheUniversityofCalifronaatSantabarbara,andPermanentMemberoftheInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics,in1992.
目录:
Foreword
Preface
Notation
1Afirstlookatstrings
1.1Whystrings?
1.2Actionprinciples
1.3Theopenstringspectrum
1.4Closedandunorientedstrings
Exercises
2Conformalfieldtheory
2.1Masslessscalarsintwodimensions
2.2Theoperatorproductexpansion
2.3WardidentitiesandNoetherstheorem
2.4Conformalinvariance
2.5FreeCFTs
2.6TheVirasoroalgebra
2.7Modeexpansions
2.8Vertexoperators
2.9Moreonstatesandoperators
Exercises
3Thepolyakovpathintegral
3.1Sumsoverworld-sheets
3.2ThePolyakovpathingegral
3.3Gaugefixing
3.4TheWeylanomaly
3.5Scatteringamplitudes
3.6Vertexoperators
3.7Stringsincurvedspacetime
Exercises
4Thestringspectrum
4.1Oldcovariantquantization
4.2BRSTquantization
4.3BRSTquantizationofthestring
4.4Theno-ghosttheorem
Exercises
5ThestringS-matrix
5.1Thecircleandthetorus
5.2ModuliandRiemannsurfaces
5.3Themeasureformoduli
5.4Moreaboutthemeasure
Exercises
6Tree-levelamplitudes
7One-loopamplitudes
8ToroidalcompactificationandT-duality
AppendxA:Ashortcourseonpathintegrals
References
Glossary
Index

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