String Theory - 2º Semester 2016/2017

Lecturer:	Gabriel Lopes Cardoso

	Email: gcardoso@math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

	Office: Departamento de Matemática, 5th floor, room 5.42

Classes:	Tuesday 13h-15h (room P9, DM) & Thursday 13h-15h (room P9, DM)

Program

Bosonic strings: Polyakov action, open and closed string; quantization.

Introduction to conformal field theory.

String interactions: tree-level and one-loop amplitudes.

Low energy effective actions.

Compactification and T-duality: toroidal compactication, closed strings and T-duality.

Fermionic strings.

Basic Concepts of String Theory, Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, Stefan Theisen, 2013, Springer.

String Theory, Joseph Polchinski, 1998, Cambridge University Press. What is String Theory?

Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians, Vol. 2, 1999, American Mathematical Society, IAS.

Superstring Theory, M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz and E. Witten, 1987, Cambridge University Press.

A First Course in String Theory, Barton Zwiebach, 2004, Cambridge University Press.

Homework assignments (60%) + Project (40%)