STRING THEORY I
Physics 642 - Fall 2007

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Unit 3: The string spectrum

TEXTBOOKS: String theory, by Joseph Polchinski, Cambridge University Press.
Superstring theory, by Michael Green, John Schwarz and Edward Witten, Cambridge University Press.
String theory and M-theory, by Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker and John Schwarz, Cambridge University Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. BRST quantization of a point particle
  2. BRST quantization of a string
  3. The no-ghost theorem

REFERENCES

  • Polchinski, Chapter 4.
  • GSW, .
  • BBS, .

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