Superstrings: The First 15 years of Superstring TheoryReprints + Commentary — In 2 Volumes
- ISBN-10
- 9814590762
- ISBN-13
- 9789814590761
- Category
- Duality (Nuclear physics)
- Pages
- 1168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985-09-01
- Publisher
- World Scientific
- Author
- J H Schwarz
Description
The discovery by Green and Schwarz in 1984 that ten-dimensional superstring theory is anomaly-free and finite only if the Yang–Mills gauge group is SO(32) or E8 x E8 has made the phenomenological possibilities of superstrings evident. Ths has resulted in a sudden surge of interest in superstrings unification. Since this fast-developing field is new to almost all theoretical physicist, this collection of basic pre-1985 references should be very valuable. This two volumes contain over 1000 pages of reprints plus some introductory comments by J Schwarz. Contents:Volume 1:Review of Bosonic StringsThe Original PapersNo-ghost Theorems and Determination of D=10Fermion-Emission Vertex and Fermion-Fermion ScatteringTransition from Hadrons to Elementary ParticlesWorld-sheet Supersymmetry, Space-time SupersymmetryDevelopment of Superstring FormalismReview PapersVolume 2:Field Theory of StringsSuperstring Field TheoryAnomaly and Infinity CancellationsPhenomenology Begins Readership: Upper level undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers in theoretical physics, mathematical physics and superstring theory. Keywords:Superstrings;String Theory;Supersymmetry;Unification;Gravity/Gravitation;Quantum Field Theory;AnomaliesReview: “The existence of this excellent book of reprints covering the beginning of the superstring era suggests a need for a similar effort to document the era when strings were known as dual resonance models. No serious student of superstring theories should be without this set of reprints, and I am recommending it to my students.” Pierre Ramond Physics Today (USA)
