String Theory Compactifications

• Main Authors: Graña, Mariana (Author), Triendl, Hagen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification. The text sta...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to String Theory
• Chapter 2 Lecture 2: Compactifications on tori
• Chapter 3 Lecture 3: Calabi-Yau Compactifications
• Chapter 4 Lecture 4: Fluxes and Generalized Geometry
• Chapter 5 Lecture 5: 4D Effective actions for compactifications on manifolds of reduced structure
• Chapter 6 Lecture 6: Open problems in phenomenology .