Quantum Field Theory (MT)
Areas: PT
Sequels: String Theory II (TT), Introduction to Gauge-String Duality (TT)
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Visiting and Short Option Students Only: Please e-mail your work to your TA/Tutor by the required deadline, copying in mmathphys@maths.ox.ac.uk
Link to submit your homework:
TA Thomas Harvey's class, deadline Tuesday 12 noon in weeks 2, 4 6 and 8: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/MwLEStzp4ygPGFD
TA Hanzhi Jiang's class, deadline Monday 12 noon in weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 : https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/jSoT5TJ8eoBtEat
TA Enrico Marchetto's class, deadline Monday 12 noon in weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/cLfN6KQayWcNHir
Prof. Xenia de la Ossa
Mini Project
Historical background, Dolan-Horn-Schmid duality, the Veneziano and Virasoro-Shapiro amplitudes. Nambu-Goto and Polyakov world-sheet actions, equations of motion and constraints, open and closed strings and their corresponding boundary conditions. Old covariant quantization: the Virasoro algebra, physical state conditions, ghosts, critical spacetime dimension, and spacetime particle spectrum. Basic considerations of light-cone gauge quantization. Vertex operators and string scattering amplitudes. Strings in background fields, spacetime effective action. Circle compactification, elementary consideration of D-branes, T-duality.