Advanced Topic in String Theory

The module description from the syllabus is available here.

Groups

Time	Place	Tutor
Thursday, 16:15 - 18:00	Conference Room 2, HISKP	Damián Kaloni Mayorga Peña & Fabian Ruehle

Exercise sheets

No	Exercise sheet
00	Holonomy, Gauge Sector of the Z3 Orbifold
01	Spectrum of the Z3 Orbifold I, Hodge Diamond
02	Spectrum of the Z3 Orbifold II, Spectrum from Hodge Numbers
03	Basics on Projective Spaces, CY manifolds in Projective Spaces
04	Conformal Group in D>2
05	Conformal Group in D=2, Free Boson Correlation Function
06	EM Tensor, 2-Point Functions
07	2-Point Functions for free Fermions, Linear Dilaton CFT
08	Free Bosons CFT, bc Ghost System
09	Theta Function, Exam Review Questions

Requirements for final exam

In order to be admitted to the final exam the following requirements have to be met:

• Active participation in the tutorials
• Solutions to the exercises have to be presented at least twice in the tutorials
• Approx. 50% of the credits from all exercise sheets

Prerequesites

Group Theory, Theoretical Particle Physics I and II, String Theory I, QFT

Contents

• Realistic compactifications
• Interactions
• Effective actions
• Heterotic strings in four dimensions
• Intersecting D-branes

Literature

• D. Lüst, S. Theisen: Lectures on String Theory
  (Springer, New York 1989)
• S. Förste: Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions
  (Fortsch. Phys. 50 (2002) 221, arxiv:hep-th/0110055)
• C. Johnson: D-Brane Primer
  (Cambridge University Press 2003)
• M. Green, J. Schwarz, E. Witten: Superstring Theory I & II
  (Cambridge University Press 1988)
• H.P. Nilles: Supersymmetry and phenomenology
  (Phys. Reps. 110 C (1984) 1)
• J. Polchinski: String Theory I & II
  (Cambridge University Press 2005)