Introduction to string theory, Fall 2017

Syllabus

Lecture notes

This course is given together with Daisuke Yokoyama. Hence, the lecture notes, homework and solution are written with Daisuke. (This course would be impossible without him and his contribution is more than a half. Thanks a lot!)

lecture1 (Introduction, Bosonic string)

lecture2 (2d conformal field theory)

lecture3 (2d conformal field theory continued)

lecture4 (Vertex operators, Weyl anomaly, Non-linear sigma model)

lecture5 (Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing, BRST quantization)

lecture6 (Bosonic string amplitudes)

lecture7 (RNS formalism, Type II)

lecture8 (D-branes, Torus partition functions)

lecture9 (T-duality)

lecture10 (Type I, orientifolds)

lecture11 (Toroidal compactification, Heterotic)

lecture12 (String dualities, M-theory)

lecture13 (String dualities, Heterotic M-theory)

lecture14 (D-brane dynamics)

lecture15 (Black holes in string theory)

lecture16 (AdS/CFT)

(These notes are written by referring to various references without mentioning them. Comments are welcome.)

Homework

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First, you should try to solve problem sets by yourself.

If you cannot solve a problem. the corresponding solution will be sent on request.