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.