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Books References Becker, K., M. Becker, and J. Schwarz, String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007. Green, M., J. Schwarz, and E. Witten, Superstring Theory, vol. 1: Introduction (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics), Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988. Kaku, M., Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. Kaku, M., Strings, Conformal Fields, and M-Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. Kiritsis, E., String Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2007. Maggiore, M., A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005. Polchinski, J., String Theory, vol. 1: An Introduction to the Bosonic String (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics), Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998. Copyright © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of use.
298 String Theory Demystifi ed Susskind, L., and J. Lindesay, An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe, World Scientifi c Publishing Company, Singapore, 2005. Szabo, R., An Introduction to String Theory and D-Brane Dynamics, Imperial College Press, London, 2004. Zwiebach, B., A First Course in String Theory, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. Papers Alvarez, E., L. Alvarez-Guame, and Y. Lozano, “An Introduction to T-Duality in String Theory,” lanl.arXiv.org (1994), arXiv:hep-th/9410237v2. Also available in Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 41 (1995) 1–20. Clifford, V. J., “D-Brane Primer,” http://www.Citebase.org/abstract?id=oai% AarXiv.org%3Ahep-th%2F0007170. Kiritsis, E., “Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory,” lanl.arXiv.org (1997), arXiv:hep-th/9708130v1. Mohaupt, T., “Introduction to String Theory,” lanl.arXiv.org (2002), arXiv:hep-th/ 0207249v1. Also available in Lect. Notes Phys. 631 (2003) 173–251. Ooguri, H., “Gauge Theory and String Theory: An Introduction to the Ads/CFT Correspondence,” lanl.arXiv.org (1999), arXiv:hep-lat/9911027v1. Also available in Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 83 (2000) 77–81. Susskind L., and E. Witten, “The Holographic Bound in Anti–de Sitter Space,” http://xxx.lanl.gove/abs/hep-th/9805114; and Maldacena, J. M., “The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Super Gravity,” Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. vol. 2, 1998, 231–252. t’Hooft, G., “String Theory Lectures,” online at www.phys.uu.nl/~thooft/lectures/ string.html.
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