Section: Course Materials | String Theory II (2020-21)

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General Prerequisites:

Prequels/Pre-requisites: Quantum Field Theory, and Advanced Quantum Field Theory for Particle Physics, Supersymmetry and Supergravity

Course Term: Trinity

Course Weight: 1

Course Overview:

16 lectures.
Areas: PT
Link for homework submission - TA Dewi Gould
https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/Jg482MyytJ3J8wK
Homework deadlines are:
Fridays midnight weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Lecturer(s):

Prof. Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Assessment Type:

No formal assessment; homework completion requirement.

Course Synopsis:

Classical superstring action, RNS string, quantization and GSO-projection; 10d superstrings: Type IIA, IIB, I and Heterotic strings; Open strings and D-branes; Supergravities and spacetime effective actions, M-theory and 11d supergravity; Compactifications; Dualities between string theories.

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