Birth of String Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-12-06 v2 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
This is a brief summary of an introductory lecture for students and scholars in general given by the author at Nambu Memorial Symposium which was held at Osaka City University on September 29, 2015. We review the invention of string theory by Professor Yoichiro Nambu following the discovery of the Veneziano amplitude. We also discuss Professor Nambu's proposal on string theory in the Schild gauge in 1976 which is related to the matrix model of Yang-Mills type.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.03701,
title = {Birth of String Theory},
author = {H. Itoyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03701},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
14 pages. Write-up of an introductory lecture at Nambu Memorial Symposium at Osaka City University, on September 29, 2015. To appear in the special volume of Prog. Th. Exp. Phys;v2:Comments and references added. The preprint number corrected to be OCU-PHYS-448. Typos corrected