| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
|
| Title/Author: |
String theory demystified // David McMahon. |
| Author: |
McMahon, David |
| Published: |
New York :McGraw Hill, : c2009., |
| Description: |
xiii, 306 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction -- The classical string I : equations of motion -- The classical string II : symmetries and worldsheet currents -- String quantization -- Conformal field theory part I -- BRST quantization -- RNS superstrings -- Compactification and T-duality -- Superstring theory continued -- A summary of superstring theory -- Type II string theories -- Heterotic string theory -- D-branes -- Black holes -- The holographic principle and AdS/CRT correspondance -- String theory and cosmology. |
| Subject: |
String models. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008033008.html |
| ISBN: |
0071498702 (pbk.) |