String theory compactifications
The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification. The text sta...
| Main Author: | Graña, Mariana, |
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| Other Authors: | Triendl, Hagen,, SpringerLink (Online Service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Series: |
SpringerBriefs in physics.
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Table of Contents:
- Abstract; String Theory Compactifications; 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to String Theory; 1.1 Bosonic Strings; 1.2 Superstrings; 2 Lecture 2: Compactifications on Tori; 2.1 Kaluza-Klein Compactifications on S1 (in Field Theory); 2.2 Compactifications of the Bosonic String on S1; 2.3 Toroidal String Compactifications; 3 Lecture 3: Calabi-Yau Compactifications; 3.1 The Geometry of Calabi-Yau Manifolds; 3.2 Effective Theory for Compactifications of Type II Theories on CY3; 4 Lecture 4: Fluxes and Generalized Geometry; 4.1 Charges and Fluxes; 4.2 Generalized Geometry.
- 4.3 Flux Compactifications and Generalized Complex Geometry5 Lecture 5: 4D Effective Actions #x83;; 5.1 Compactifications on Twisted Tori and N=8 Gauged Supergravity; 5.2 Compactifications on Generalized Complex Geometries and N=2 Gauged Supergravity; 5.3 Exceptional Generalized Geometry; 6 Lecture 6: Open Problems in Phenomenology; 6.1 Calabi-Yau Orientifold Reductions; 6.2 Moduli Stabilization in Type IIB; 6.3 Moduli Stabilization Including Non Perturbative Effects and de Sitter Vacua; References.