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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]
  • String Theory Demystified by D. McMahon [McGraw Hill (2009)]
  • An Introduction to String Theory by James Bedford [after 2003 lectures by Michael Green] [2011/07]
  • Introduction to string theory by C. Maccaferri et al. [2023/11] 200+ pp.

• 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]
  • String theory: big problem for small size by Sukadev Sahoo [ European Journal of Physics 30, 901 (2009)]
  • String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years by Sunil Mukhi [Class. & Quant. Grav. 28, 153001 (2011)]
  • Life at the Interface of Particle Physics and String Theory by A. N. Schellekens [2013/06]
  • La teoria de supercuerdas by Herbert Morales [2014/12] In Spanish.
  • An Introduction to Pure Spinor Superstring Theory by Nathan Berkovits and Humberto Gomez [2015/08]
  • Beyond the Standard Model '17 by Dmitry Kazakov [2017/09]
  • TASI Lectures on Geometric Tools for String Compactifications by Lara B. Anderson and Mohsen Karkheiran [2018/04]
  • A guide to frames, 2π's, scales and corrections in string compactifications by B. Valeixo Bento et al. [2023/01]
  • Extra dimensions and physics of low-scale strings by I. Antoniadis and K. Benakli [2023/05]
  • Hiding the extra dimensions: A review on scale separation in string theory by T. Coudarchet [2023/11]
  • A lightning introduction to string theory by C. Angelantonj and I. Florakis [2024/06]
  • An Unreasonably Quick Introduction to String Theory, Conformal Field Theory and Geometry by P. S. Aspinwall [2024/07]

• 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]
  • String field theory by C. Maccaferri [2023/08]
  • String field theory: A review by A. Sen and B. Zwiebach [2024/05] 172 pp.

• General: NON-PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES: Sen 98/02; Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03; Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06; Garcia-Compean and Loaiza-Brito 2000/03;
  • String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years by Sunil Mukhi [Class. & Quant. Grav. 28, 153001 (2011)]
  • Les Houches lectures on non-perturbative topological strings by M. Marino [2024/11]

• General: PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES: Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03; Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06; Garcia-Compean and Loaiza-Brito 2000/03;
  • Survey of mathematical foundations of QFT and perturbative string theory by Hisham Sati and Urs Schreiber [2011/09]
  • String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years by Sunil Mukhi [Class. & Quant. Grav. 28, 153001 (2011)]

• General: PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES: Re: LARGE N GAUGE THEORY: Kakushadze 98/08;
• Types: M; TOPOLOGICAL; W;

• Type: BOSONIC: Larranaga Rubio 2003/06;

• Type: CLOSED:
  • Closed Superstring Field Theory and its Applications by Corinne de Lacroix et al. [2017/03]
  • Four Lectures on Closed String Theory by Theodore Erler [2019/03]

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

• Type: FREE FERMIONIC: Antoniadis 93/07;

• Type: GASES:
  • Lecture notes on thermodynamics of ideal string gases and its application in cosmology by Lihui Liu [2012/08]

• Type: HETEROTIC: Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06;

• Type: LITTLE: Aharony 99/11;

• Type: NON-BPS: Lerda and Russo 99/05;

• Type: NON-RELATIVISTIC:
  • Aspects of nonrelativistic strings by G. Oling and Z.-Q. Yan [2022/02]

• Type: OPEN: Berkovitz 2001/05; Angelantonj and Sagnotti 2002/04;

• Type: p-ADIC:
  • p-adic strings then and now by Peter G. O. Freund [2017/10]

• Type: VACUUM: Koshelev 2002/12;

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

• Aspects: BACKGROUNDS:
  • Non-geometric backgrounds in string theory by Erik Plauschinn [2018/11] 241 pp.

• Aspects: RNS APPROACH: Baaquie and Kwek 2000/02;
• Aspects: SOFT TERMS: Muñoz 98/02;
• Aspects: STRINGY GEOMETRY: Schwarz and Seiberg 98/03;

• Aspects: SWAMPLAND:
  • Lectures on the Swampland program in string compactification by M. van Beest et al. [2021/02]

• Aspects: VERTEX ALGEBRAS:
  • Introduction to vertex algebras, Poisson vertex algebras, and integrable Hamiltonian PDE by Victor Kac [2015/12]

• 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;
  • Black hole solutions in string theory by Kei-ichi Maeda and Masato Nozawa [2011/04]
  • Black-hole--string correspondence by L. Susskind [2021/10]

• 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]
  • Towards an Observational Appraisal of String Cosmology by David J. Mulryne and John Ward [2011/05]
  • String moduli inflation: an overview by Michele Cicoli and Fernando Quevedo [2011/08]
  • Inflation and String Theory by Daniel Baumann and Liam McAllister [2014/04]
  • String Cosmology - Large-Field Inflation in String Theory by Alexander Westphal [2014/09]
  • Lecture notes on thermodynamics of ideal string gases and its application in cosmology by Lihui Liu [2012/08]
  • String cosmology: From the early universe to today by M. Cicoli et al. [2023/03]
  • Superstring cosmology: A complementary review by R. Brandenberger [2023/06] i.e. not involving inflation

• 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: DUALITY: Haack et al. 99/04;
  • An Introduction to Generalised Dualities and their Applications to Holography and Integrability by Daniel C. Thompson [2019/04]

• 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: EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY: Antoniadis and Ovarlez 99/06;
• Re: FLAVOUR-CHANGING NEUTRAL CURRENT: Muñoz 98/02;

• Re: GRAVITY: Gibbons 98/03; Rovelli 98/03; Polchinski 98/12; Maldacena 2000/02; Sanchez 2002/09;
  • String theory: a perspective over the last 25 years by Sunil Mukhi [Class. & Quant. Grav. 28, 153001 (2011)]
  • String Theory, Unification and Quantum Gravity by Kellogg S. Stelle [2011/09]
  • Quantum Gravity: A Brief History of Ideas and Some Prospects by Steven Carlip et al. [2015/07]

• Re: GRAVITY: Two Dimensional: Martinec 91/12; Bars 92/10;

• Re: HAWKING RADIATION: Das and Mathur 2001/05;

• Re: HIGHER SPINS:
  • From Higher Spins to Strings: A Primer by Rakibur Rahman and Massimo Taronna [2015/12] 107 pp.
• Re: HOLOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLE:
  • Lectures on the holographic duality of gauge fields and strings by Gordon W. Semenoff [Les Houches 2016]

• Re: INSTANTONS: Khuri 95/06;
  • Lectures on non-perturbative [instanton] effects in large N gauge theories, matrix models and strings by Marcos Marino [2012/06]

• 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;
  • Review of M(atrix)-Theory, Type IIB Matrix Model and Matrix String Theory by Badis Ydri [2017/08]

• 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]
  • A Review of Noncommutative Field Theories by Victor O. Rivelles [2010/11]

• Re: NON-COMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY:
  • The Structure of Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry by Fedele Lizzi [2008/05]
  • A Course on Noncommutative Geometry in String Theory by Ralph Blumenhagen [2013/09]

• 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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