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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Physics (SpringerBriefs in Physics)
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About this book
The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification.
The text starts with a very brief introduction to string theory, first working out its massless spectrum and showing how the condition on the number of dimensions arises. It then dwells on the different possible internal manifolds, from the simplest to the most relevant phenomenologically, thereby showing that the most elegant description is through an extension of ordinary Riemannian geometry termed generalized geometry, which was first introduced by Hitchin.
Last but not least, the authors review open problems in string phenomenology, such as the embedding of the Standard Model and obtaining de Sitter solutions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: String Theory Compactifications
Authors: Mariana Graña, Hagen Triendl
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54316-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54315-4Published: 27 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54316-1Published: 21 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-5423
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5431
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 74
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences