Overview
- A highly-praised comprehensive, introductory reference on superstring theory
- Begins with a simple discussion of point particle theory and uses Feynman path integrals to unify the presentation of superstrings
- Incorporates the latest advances and stresses current areas of interest, including: string field theory, multi-loops, Teichmüller spaces, conformal field theory, and four-dimensional strings
- Kaku is a well-known author of both scientific and popular-level books who is sometimes cited in the press
- Kaku's is the best comprehensive text on string theory, including applications to phenomenology"
- FOUNDATIONS OF PYSICS
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics (GTCP)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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First Quantization and Path Integrals
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Front Matter
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Second Quantization and the Search for Geometry
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Front Matter
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Phenomenology and Model Building
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Front Matter
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M-Theory
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews
Foundations of Physics, on the first edition:
"... the dedicated reader...will be well versed in this fascinating area of theoretical physics."
Physics Today, on the first edition:
"...presents a pedagogical survey on string theory. It covers material from early developments to present-day research ... divided into three parts ... results of quantization, string field theory, and phenomenology ... an impressive effort..."
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
"Kaku’s book, at 568 pages, is a comprehensive, self-contained text on string theory…[It] contains useful summaries of mathematical topics such as index theory, cohomology, and Kahler manifolds. This is a book for the really serious student of string theory; the dedicated reader who emerges after page 568 will be well versed in this fascinating area of theoretical physics.”
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory
Authors: Michio Kaku
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0543-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98589-3Published: 07 December 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6811-6Published: 13 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0543-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0938-037X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVII, 587
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