String Theory
by Maximilian Kreuzer
Publisher: Technische Universitat Wien 2009
Number of pages: 90
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Contents: Introduction; The bosonic string; Quantization of bosonic strings; Superstrings; Conformal field theory (conformal group, Wick rotation and Euclidean fields, Tensors, energy-momentum, and correlations, First order systems and ghosts, etc).
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