Spring 2011
PHYS 486 String Theory II
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Instructor: Seckin Kürkcüoglu,
kseckin@metu.edu.tr
Meeting Times:
Tue: 14:40-15:30
Wed:14:40-16:30
P422
Grading:
There will be regular homework assignments and a final assignment.
Textbooks:
A first course in String Theory, Barton Zwiebach, Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Reference Books:
Superstring Theory, Vol.1, M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz, E.Witten,
Cambridge University Press, 1987
D- Branes, C.V.Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 200Course Syllabus:
• Quantization of the relativistic open strings in
the light-cone gauge
• Quantization of the relativistic closed
strings in the light-cone gauge
• D-branes and gauge fields,
• Strings in the presence of D-branes,
• String charge, electric charge and D-brane
charges,
• Strings ending on D-branes
• T-duality of closed strings (2 weeks)
• T-duality of open strings,
• T-duality and D-branes
• Electromagnetic fields on D-branes,
• Non-linear and Born-Infeld electrodynamics,
• Introduction to supersymmetry and superstrings.
• World-sheet supersymmetry in string theory
• Space-time supersymmetry in string theory
• Quantization of superstrings
• AdS/CFT Correspondence
• Aspects of covariant quantization.