What is String Theory?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The first part is an introduction to conformal field theory and string perturbation theory. The second part deals with the search for a deeper answer to the question posed in the title. Contents: 1. Conformal Field Theory 2. String Theory 3. Vacua and Dualities 4. String Field Theory or Not String Field Theory 5. Matrix Models
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9411028,
title = {What is String Theory?},
author = {Joseph Polchinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9411028},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
153 pages, 30 figures. Lectures presented at the 1994 Les Houches Summer School ``Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory.'' (also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/lh94/ )