String Theory in a Nutshell

Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Classical String Theory
3 Quantization of Bosonic Strings
4 Conformal Field Theory
5 Scattering Amplitudes and Vertex Operators
6 Strings in Background Fields
7 Superstrings and Supersymmetry
8 D-Branes
9 Compactification and Supersymmetry Breaking
10 Loop Corrections to String Effective Couplings
11 Duality Connections and Nonperturbative Effects
12 Compactifications with Fluxes
13 Black Holes and Entropy in String Theory
14 The Bulk/Boundary (Holographic) Correspondence
15 Applications of the Holographic Correspondence
16 String Theory and Matrix Models
Appendixes
	Appendix A Two-Dimensional Complex Geometry
	Appendix B Differential Forms
	Appendix C Conformal Transformations and Curvature
	Appendix D Theta and Other Elliptic Functions
	Appendix E Toroidal Lattice Sums
	Appendix F Toroidal Kaluza-Klein Reduction
	Appendix G The Reissner-Nordström Black Hole
	Appendix H Electric-Magnetic Duality in D = 4
	Appendix I Supersymmetric Actions in Ten and Eleven Dimensions
	Appendix J N=14, 24, Four-Dimensional Supergravity Coupled to Matter
	Appendix K BPS Multiplets in Four Dimensions
	Appendix L The Geometry of Anti-de Sitter Space
Bibliography
Index