Superstrings - Freud, Peter G. O.

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Sommaire:
I: Mathematical Techniques.- Modular Invariance and Infine-Dimensional Algebras.- Off-Shell BRST Invariant Superjacobians.- II: String Field Theory.- A Geometry Independent Field Theory of String.- The Gluing Theorem in the Operator Formulation of String Field Theory.- Conformai Field Theory Methods and Construction of Witten's Superstring Field Theory.- Gauge Invariance, BRST Invariance, and Ward Identities in String Field Theory.- Closed Strings and Witten's String Field Theory.- Geometric String Field Theory: Deriving String Theory from First Principles.- On Higher Order Interactions for Superstrings.- III: String Geometry and Arithmetic.- K?hler Geometry of String Theory.- Numbers and Strings.- IV: Compactification and Phenomenology.- Type II Superstrings in Four Dimensions.- Four-Dimensional Strings.- String Thermodynamics and Cosmology.- Orbifold Compactification toward Standard Model.- V: Polyakov Strings.- Liouville Strings.- A Polyakov Path Integral with Ghosts.- String Path Integrals for Open or Unoriented World Sheets.- VI: Loops.- Two Loop Partition Function in (Compactified) Heterotic String Vacua.- String Perturbation Theory and Effective Lagrangians.- VII: Anomalies and Chiral Bosonization.- Chiral Bosonization.- Superstring Anomalies.- Toplogy, Superspace, and Heterotic Gravitational Anomalies.- Anomaly-Free Theories Remain Anomaly-Free after Compactification with No Isometries.- Many New Anomaly-Free Theories in Higher Dimensions.- VIII: Supermembranes and Other Alternatives.- Supermembranes.- On the Massless Excitations of The 11d Supermembrane.- Highlights of Parastring Theories.- Line Functional Theory for Strings.- Internal Symmetry for Type II Strings in Oscillator Formalism.- Participants.