Matrix models of string theory / Badis Ydri.

By: Ydri, Badis [author.]Contributor(s): Institute of Physics, IOP - EBA (Great Britain) [publisher.]Material type: TextTextSeries: IOP (Series)Release 5 | IOP expanding physicsPublisher: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780750317269 ebookSubject(s): String models | Matrices | Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory) | SCIENCE / GravityAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 539.72 LOC classification: QC794.6.S85 Y476 2018ebOnline resources: e-book Full-text access Also available in print.
Contents:
1. Introduction -- part I. String theory. 2. String theory -- 2.1. Actions, symmetries and solutions -- 2.2. Canonical quantization and Virasoro algebra -- 2.3. Spurious states and critical strings -- 2.4. Lightcone gauge quantization -- 2.5. Ex
3. Polyakov path integral -- 3.1. Gauge fixing and Fadeev-Popov ghosts -- 3.2. The energy-momentum tensor -- 3.3. Quantization of the ghosts -- 3.4. BRST symmetry -- 3.5. Exercises
4. Introduction to conformal field theory -- 4.1. The conformal groups SO(p + 1, q + 1) -- 4.2. The conformal group in two dimensions -- 4.3. The energy-momentum tensor -- 4.4. The operator product expansion -- 4.5. Conformal field theory and BR
5. Superstring theory essentials -- 5.1. The superparticle -- 5.2. The Green-Schwarz superstring -- 5.3. The Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz superstring -- 5.4. Canonical quantization -- 5.5. The light cone/path integral quantization -- 5.6. Other very imp
part II. Matrix string theory. 6. A lightning introduction to superstring theory and some related topics -- 6.1. Quantum black holes -- 6.2. Some string theory and conformal field theory -- 6.3. On Dp-branes and T-duality -- 6.4. Quantum gravity
7. M-(atrix) theory and matrix string theory -- 7.1. The quantized membrane -- 7.2. The IKKT model or type IIB matrix model -- 7.3. The BFSS model from dimensional reduction -- 7.4. Introducing gauge/gravity duality -- 7.5. Black hole unitarity
8. Type IIB matrix model -- 8.1. The IKKT model in the Gaussian expansion method -- 8.2. Yang-Mills matrix cosmology -- 8.3. Emergent gravity : introductory remarks -- 8.4. Fuzzy spheres and fuzzy CPn -- 8.5. Fuzzy SN 4 : symplectic and Poisson
Abstract: Beginning with a systematic review of the standard exposition of string theory, which is required for a proper understanding of matrix models of string theory, this book proceeds to provide a comprehensive presentation of matrix models of string
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1. Introduction -- part I. String theory. 2. String theory -- 2.1. Actions, symmetries and solutions -- 2.2. Canonical quantization and Virasoro algebra -- 2.3. Spurious states and critical strings -- 2.4. Lightcone gauge quantization -- 2.5. Ex

3. Polyakov path integral -- 3.1. Gauge fixing and Fadeev-Popov ghosts -- 3.2. The energy-momentum tensor -- 3.3. Quantization of the ghosts -- 3.4. BRST symmetry -- 3.5. Exercises

4. Introduction to conformal field theory -- 4.1. The conformal groups SO(p + 1, q + 1) -- 4.2. The conformal group in two dimensions -- 4.3. The energy-momentum tensor -- 4.4. The operator product expansion -- 4.5. Conformal field theory and BR

5. Superstring theory essentials -- 5.1. The superparticle -- 5.2. The Green-Schwarz superstring -- 5.3. The Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz superstring -- 5.4. Canonical quantization -- 5.5. The light cone/path integral quantization -- 5.6. Other very imp

part II. Matrix string theory. 6. A lightning introduction to superstring theory and some related topics -- 6.1. Quantum black holes -- 6.2. Some string theory and conformal field theory -- 6.3. On Dp-branes and T-duality -- 6.4. Quantum gravity

7. M-(atrix) theory and matrix string theory -- 7.1. The quantized membrane -- 7.2. The IKKT model or type IIB matrix model -- 7.3. The BFSS model from dimensional reduction -- 7.4. Introducing gauge/gravity duality -- 7.5. Black hole unitarity

8. Type IIB matrix model -- 8.1. The IKKT model in the Gaussian expansion method -- 8.2. Yang-Mills matrix cosmology -- 8.3. Emergent gravity : introductory remarks -- 8.4. Fuzzy spheres and fuzzy CPn -- 8.5. Fuzzy SN 4 : symplectic and Poisson

Beginning with a systematic review of the standard exposition of string theory, which is required for a proper understanding of matrix models of string theory, this book proceeds to provide a comprehensive presentation of matrix models of string

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Badis Ydri is currently a professor of theoretical particle physics, at the Institute of Physics, Annaba University, Algeria. He is also a research associate at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, and a regular ICTP Assoc

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