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Title: Lectures on String Theory
Authors: David Tong
Categories: physics.hep-th High Energy Physics - Theory
Comments: 210ish pages, lots of figures. These lectures were given in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. V2 and V3: Typos corrected. Individual chapters can be downloaded from http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/string.html . The notes on the course webpage will be updated more frequently than those on the arXiv

Abstract: This is a one semester course on bosonic string theory aimed at beginning graduate students. The lectures assume a working knowledge of quantum field theory and general relativity. Contents:

1. The Classical String

2. The Quantum String

3. Open Strings and D-Branes

4. Introducing Conformal Field Theory

5. The Polyakov Path Integral and Ghosts

6. String Interactions

7. The Low-Energy Effective Action

8. Compactification and T-Duality

Owner: David Tong
Version 1: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:14:37 GMT
Version 2: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:31:31 GMT
Version 3: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:50:49 GMT

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