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String Theory Compactifications

By Mariana Graña , Hagen Triendl (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-319-54315-4, 978-3-319-54316-1
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-54316-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1178738 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Physics
Edition
1
Pages
VII, 74\82
Time added
2017-06-25 01:08:56
Quantum Field TheoriesString Theory;Mathematical Applications in the Phy

Description

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 starts with a very brief introduction to string theory, first working out its massless spectrum and showing how the condition on the number of dimensions arises. It then dwells on the different possible internal manifolds, from the simplest to the most relevant phenomenologically, thereby showing that the most elegant description is through an extension of ordinary Riemannian geometry termed generalized geometry, which was first introduced by Hitchin. Last but not least, the authors review open problems in string phenomenology, such as the embedding of the Standard Model and obtaining de Sitter solutions.

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