String Theory I (2022-23)
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- Lecturer: Profile: Ling Lin
Course information
General prerequisites:
Quantum Field Theory (MT)
Course term: Hilary
Course lecture information: 16 lectures
Course weight: 1
Course overview:
1 unit
16 lectures
Areas: PT
Sequels: String Theory II (TT)
Lecturer: Ling Lin
Method of Assessment: Mini Project only, HT.
16 lectures
Areas: PT
Sequels: String Theory II (TT)
Lecturer: Ling Lin
Method of Assessment: Mini Project only, HT.
Course synopsis:
Historical background, Dolen-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.
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Section outline
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Scheduling
There will be no lectures in week 8. The two lectures will be rescheduled to:
- Thursday week 5 (16/02), 10-11, L5 (same room as first lecture from 9-10),
- Thursday week 7 (02/03), 10-11, L4 (room change after first lecture from 9-10)
Tutorial time slots
Set I:
- 26/01, 10:00, C3
- 09/02, 16:30, C6
- 23/02, 16:30, C6
- 09/03, 16:30, C6
Set II:
- 26/01, 11:30, C3
- 10/02, 16:30, C2
- 24/02, 16:30, C2
- 09/03: 8:30, L5
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These notes are updated as the course progresses.
Please be aware of potential typos and errors. If you notice any, please let me know in the lectures of via email.
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