A First Course in String Theory 2ED

Barton Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. He presents the main concepts of string theory in a concrete and physical way to develop intuition before formalism, often through simplified and illustrative examples. Complete and thorough in its coverage, this new edition now includes the AdS/CFT correspondence and introd...

Barton Zwiebach is once again faithful to his goal of making string theory accessible to undergraduates. He presents the main concepts of string theory in a concrete and physical way to develop intuition before formalism, often through simplified and illustrative examples. Complete and thorough in its coverage, this new edition now includes the AdS/CFT correspondence and introduces superstrings. It is perfectly suited to introductory courses in string theory for students with a background in mathematics and physics.

This new edition contains completely new chapters on the AdS/CFT correspondence, an introduction to superstrings, and new sections covering strings on orbifolds, cosmic strings, moduli stabilization, and the string theory landscape. There are almost 300 problems and exercises, with password protected solutions available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/zwiebach.

Barton Zwiebach is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His central contributions have been in the area of string field theory, where he did the

early work on the construction of the field theory of open strings and then developed the field theory of closed strings. He has also made important contributions to the subjects of D-branes with exception...

Barton Zwiebach is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His central contributions have been in the area of string field theory, where he did the

early work on the construction of the field theory of open strings and then developed the field theory of closed strings. He has also made important contributions to the subjects of D-branes with exceptional symmetry and tachyon condensation.