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STRING AND SUPERSTRING THEORY

STRINGS AND SUPERSTRINGS:
See also: Supersymmetry and History of String Theory

• General: Introductory: Johnson 97/12; Schwartz 1999; Pierre 99/09; Sagnotti et al. 2002/09;

• General: Textbooks: Pierre 97/12; Siegel 99/12; Siegel 2001/07; Szabo 2002/07; Mohaupt 2002/07;
  • An Invitation to String Theory by Chethan Krishnan [2004/01]

• General: Schwartz 97/11; Dienes and Kolda 97/12; de Wit and Lewis 98/01; Gibbons 98/03; Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03; Bilal 98/05; Vafa 98/10; Alvarez and Meesen 98/10; Polchinski 98/12; Ibanez 99/01; Haack et al. 99/04; Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06; Ibanez 99/11; Garcia-Compean and Loaiza-Brito 2000/03; Yoneya 2000/04; Schwarz 2000/08; Sen 2000/11; de Boer 2002/10; Witten 2002/12; Schwarz 2003/04;
  • Introductory Lectures on String Theory by A. A. Tseytlin [2008/08]
  • Status of Superstring and M-Theory by John H. Schwarz [Erice 2008]

• General: FIELD THEORY APPROACH:
  • Closed String Field Theory: An Introduction by B. Zwiebach [1993/05]
  • The Utility of Quantum Field Theory by Michael Dine [2000/10]
  • String Theory or Field Theory? by Andrei Marshakov [Usp. Fiz. Nauk 45, 977 (2002)]
  • Supersymmetry and Superstring Phenomenology by Mary K. Gaillard and Bruno Zumino [2008/05]

• General: NON-PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES: Sen 98/02; Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03; Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06; Garcia-Compean and Loaiza-Brito 2000/03;
• General: PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES: Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03; Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06; Garcia-Compean and Loaiza-Brito 2000/03;
• General: PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES: Re: LARGE N GAUGE THEORY: Kakushadze 98/08;
• Types: TOPOLOGICAL; W;
• Type: BOSONIC: Larranaga Rubio 2003/06;

• Type: COSMIC:
  • Cosmic Strings and Cosmic Superstrings by Mairi Sakellariadou [2009/02]

• Type: HETEROTIC: Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06;
• Type: LITTLE: Aharony 99/11;
• Type: NON-BPS: Lerda and Russo 99/05;
• Type: OPEN: Berkovitz 2001/05; Angelantonj and Sagnotti 2002/04;
• Type: VACUUM: Koshelev 2002/12;

• Type: VORTEX:
  • Quantum Vortex Strings: A Review by David Tong [2008/09]

• Aspects: RNS APPROACH: Baaquie and Kwek 2000/02;
• Aspects: SOFT TERMS: Muñoz 98/02;
• Aspects: STRINGY GEOMETRY: Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03;
• Processes: BREAKING: Schilling 99/09;
• Re: BLACK HOLES: Tseytlin 94/10; Duff 94/10; Duff et al. 94/12; Khuri 95/06; Townsend 95/10; Strominger 95/10; Li and Yoneya 98/06; Skenderis 99/01;
• Re: BLACK HOLES: ENTROPY: Sen 98/02; Sen 98/10; Das and Mathur 2001/05;
• Re: BOUNDARY EFFECTS: Green 95/10;
• Re: BRANES: Haack et al. 99/04;
• Re: COSMIC BACKGROUND: GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION: Brustein 98/10;
• Re: COSMOLOGY: Barrow and Kunze 98/07; Brustein 98/10; Gasperini 99/07; Lidsey et al. 99/09; Olive 99/09; Carroll 2000/11; Brandenberger 2001/03; Mavromatos 2001/11; Wands 2002/03; Sanchez 2002/09; Quevedo 2002/10; Sanchez 2003/02; Cleaver 2003/03; Linde 2005/03; Cline 2006/06;
  • String Cosmology: A Review by Liam McAllister and Eva Silverstein [2007/10]

• Re: COSMOLOGY: CHAOS: Damour 2002/04;
• Re: CURVATURE: Bars 92/10; Sanchez 2003/02;

• Re: DARK ENERGY:
  • The issue of Dark Energy in String Theory by Nick E. Mavromatos [2006/07]

• Re: EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY: Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06;
• Re: FLAVOUR-CHANGING NEUTRAL CURRENT: Muñoz 98/02;
• Type: FREE FERMIONIC: Antoniadis 93/07;
• Re: DUALITY: Haack et al. 99/04;
• Re: DUALITY: T DUALITY: Alvarez et al. 94/10; Haack et al. 99/04; Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06;
• Re: DUALITY: U DUALITY: Haack et al. 99/04;
• Re: GRAVITY: Gibbons 98/03; Rovelli 98/03; Polchinski 98/12; Maldacena 2000/02; Sanchez 2002/09;
• Re: GRAVITY: Two Dimensional: Martinec 91/12; Bars 92/10;
• Re: HAWKING RADIATION: Das and Mathur 2001/05;
• Re: INSTANTONS: Khuri 95/06;

• Re: K THEORY:
  • Overview Of K-Theory Applied To Strings by Edward Witten [Int'l. J. Mod. Phys. A16, 693 (2001)]

• Re: KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY: Duff 94/10;
• Re: LARGE N GAUGE THEORY: Kakushadze 98/08;
• Re: LOOPS: Muñoz 98/02;
• Re: M THEORY: Schwarz 98/12; Ibanez 99/11;
• Re: MANY BODY PHYSICS: Gorsky and Mironov 2000/11;
• Re: MIRROR SYMMETRY: Greene and Plesser 91/10; Berglund and Katz 94/06;

• Re: NON-ABELIAN OR NON-COMMUTATIVE GAUGE THEORY:
  • Strings and Branes in Nonabelian Gauge Theory by Christof Schmidhuber [Int'l J. Mod. Phys. A15, 4883 (2000)]
  • Trieste lectures on solitons in noncommutative gauge theories by Nikita Nekrasov [2000/11]
  • Noncommutative Field Theories and (Super)String Field Theories by I. Ya. Aref'eva et al. [2001/11]

• Re: NON-COMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY:
  • The Structure of Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry by Fedele Lizzi [2008/05]

• Re: ORIENTIFOLDS: Ibanez 99/11;

• Re: QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: Marshakov 2002/12;
  • Strings for Quantumchromodynamics by Volker Schomerus [2006/08]
  • Introduction to String Theory and Gauge/Gravity duality for students in QCD and QGP phenomenology by Robi Peschanski [2007/07]

• Re: QCD: Two Dimensional: Gross and Taylor 93/11; Bars 93/12; Köster 94/08;
• Re: REFLEXIVE POLYHEDRA: Skarke 2000/02;
• Re: SOLITONS: Duff et al. 94/12; Khuri 95/06; Townsend 95/10;
• Re: SPACETIME: MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE: Khuri 95/06; Li and Yoneya 98/06;
• Re: STANDARD MODEL: Muñoz 98/02;
• Re: SU(N): Schmidhuber 2000/01;
• Re: SUPERGRAVITY: Aspects: SOLITON SOLUTIONS: Townsend 95/10;
• Re: TACHYON CONDENSATION: Ohmori 2001/02;
• Re: UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE: Li and Yoneya 98/06;

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