Lectures on String Theory
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
Cite
@article{arxiv.0908.0333,
title = {Lectures on String Theory},
author = {David Tong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0333},
year = {2012}
}
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