Joseph Polchinski: 3 books
New Frontiers in Fields and Strings
TASI 2015Proceedings of the 2015 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2015 summer school, "New Frontiers in Fields and Strings", held at the University of Colorado Boulder in June 2015. The school focused on topics in theoretical physics of interest to contemporary researchers in quantum field...
by Joseph Polchinski
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1998
String Theory comprises two volumes which give a comprehensive and pedagogic account of the subject. Volume 1, first published in 1998, provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string. The first four chapters introduce the central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal field theory...
by Joseph Polchinski
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1998
String Theory, first published in 1998, comprises two volumes which provide a comprehensive and pedagogic account of the subject. Volume 2 begins with an introduction to supersymmetric string theories and presents the important advances of recent years. The first three chapters introduce the type...