Ebook: Superstrings

The Advancea Kesearch Workshop on Superstrings was held on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder from July 27th through August 1, 1987. Since the work of Green and Schwartz in the summer of 1984, string theories have elicited tremendous amount of interest from both theoretical physicists and mathematicians. The objective of the Workshop was to bring together practitioners in the field to discuss the progress and problems, and possible directions of future research. There were ten talks of one hour each and twenty three talks of one-half hour each. The talks covered new formulations and technical developments. There were intense discussions both during and at the end of the lectures; 'further discussions continued during lunch and dinner. These proceedings contain all talks given at the Workshop except those by Victor Kac, Darwin Chang and Doron Gepner. The Workshop was sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which provided generous financial support enabling many young physicists from the U.S. and abroad to participate in the Workshop. Additional co-sponsors were the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Colorado. The former offered further financial assistance and the latter furnished clerical and technical services and its campus facilities for the purpose of the organization and running of the Workshop. The International Organizing Committee consisted of John Ellis, Francois Englert, Peter G.O. Freund (co-director), K. T. Mahanthappa (co-director) and Abdus Salam.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Modular Invariance and Infinite-Dimensional Algebras....Pages 3-16
Off-Shell BRST Invariant Superjacobians....Pages 17-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
A Geometry Independent Field Theory of String....Pages 29-38
The Gluing Theorem in the Operator Formulation of String Field Theory....Pages 39-50
Conformal Field Theory Methods and Construction of Witten’s Superstring Field Theory....Pages 51-59
Gauge Invariance, BRST Invariance, and Ward Identities, in String Field Theory....Pages 61-68
Closed Strings and Witten’s String Field Theory....Pages 69-78
Geometric String Field Theory: Deriving String Theory from First Principles....Pages 79-88
On Higher Order Interactions for Superstrings....Pages 89-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
K?hler Geometry of String Theory....Pages 101-108
Numbers and Strings....Pages 109-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Type II Superstrings in Four Dimensions....Pages 117-133
Four-Dimensional Strings....Pages 135-146
String Thermodynamics and Cosmology....Pages 147-157
Orbifold Compactification Toward Standard Model....Pages 159-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Liouville Strings....Pages 169-186
A Polyakov Path Integral with Ghosts....Pages 187-197
String Path Integrals for open or Unoriented World Sheets....Pages 199-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Two Loop Partition Function in (Compactified) Heterotic String Vacua....Pages 207-216
String Perturbation Theory and Effective Lagrangians....Pages 217-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Chiral Bosonization....Pages 229-242
Superstring Anomalies....Pages 243-249
Topology, Superspace, and Heterotic Gravitational Anomalies....Pages 251-258
Anomaly-Free Theories Remain Anomaly-Free after Compactification with no Isometries....Pages 259-268
Many New Anomaly-Free Theories in Higher Dimensions....Pages 269-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Supermembranes....Pages 287-300
On the Massless Excitations of the 11d Supermembrane....Pages 301-311
Highlights of Parastring Theories....Pages 313-323
Line Functional Theory for Strings....Pages 325-334
Internal Symmetry for Type I Strings in Oscillator Formalism....Pages 335-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-350

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Modular Invariance and Infinite-Dimensional Algebras....Pages 3-16
Off-Shell BRST Invariant Superjacobians....Pages 17-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
A Geometry Independent Field Theory of String....Pages 29-38
The Gluing Theorem in the Operator Formulation of String Field Theory....Pages 39-50
Conformal Field Theory Methods and Construction of Witten’s Superstring Field Theory....Pages 51-59
Gauge Invariance, BRST Invariance, and Ward Identities, in String Field Theory....Pages 61-68
Closed Strings and Witten’s String Field Theory....Pages 69-78
Geometric String Field Theory: Deriving String Theory from First Principles....Pages 79-88
On Higher Order Interactions for Superstrings....Pages 89-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
K?hler Geometry of String Theory....Pages 101-108
Numbers and Strings....Pages 109-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Type II Superstrings in Four Dimensions....Pages 117-133
Four-Dimensional Strings....Pages 135-146
String Thermodynamics and Cosmology....Pages 147-157
Orbifold Compactification Toward Standard Model....Pages 159-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Liouville Strings....Pages 169-186
A Polyakov Path Integral with Ghosts....Pages 187-197
String Path Integrals for open or Unoriented World Sheets....Pages 199-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Two Loop Partition Function in (Compactified) Heterotic String Vacua....Pages 207-216
String Perturbation Theory and Effective Lagrangians....Pages 217-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Chiral Bosonization....Pages 229-242
Superstring Anomalies....Pages 243-249
Topology, Superspace, and Heterotic Gravitational Anomalies....Pages 251-258
Anomaly-Free Theories Remain Anomaly-Free after Compactification with no Isometries....Pages 259-268
Many New Anomaly-Free Theories in Higher Dimensions....Pages 269-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Supermembranes....Pages 287-300
On the Massless Excitations of the 11d Supermembrane....Pages 301-311
Highlights of Parastring Theories....Pages 313-323
Line Functional Theory for Strings....Pages 325-334
Internal Symmetry for Type I Strings in Oscillator Formalism....Pages 335-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-350
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