String Theory - 2º Semester 2017/2018

Lecturer:	Gabriel Lopes Cardoso

	Email: gcardoso@math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

	Office: Departamento de Matemática, 5th floor, room 5.42

Classes:	Tuesday 16h30-18h30 (room C13, central building) & Thursday 16h30-18h30 (room P12 , DM)

Program

Bosonic strings: Polyakov action, open and closed string; quantization.

Introduction to conformal field theory.

String interactions: tree-level and one-loop amplitudes.

Low energy effective actions.

Compactification and T-duality: toroidal compactication, closed strings and T-duality.

Fermionic strings.

A Primer on String Theory, Volker Schomerus, 2017, Cambridge University Press.

Basic Concepts of String Theory, Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst, Stefan Theisen, 2013, Springer.

Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians, Vol. 2, 1999, American Mathematical Society, IAS.

String Theory, Joseph Polchinski, 1998, Cambridge University Press. What is String Theory?

Superstring Theory, M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz and E. Witten, 1987, Cambridge University Press.

Homework assignments (60%) + Project (40%)