Superstring Theory (Winter Term 2019/2020)

Time and place

Wednesday 14-15 & Friday 12-14, Lecture Hall 1, PI

Prerequisites

Quantum Field Theory, Group Theory, Advanced Theoretical Physics, Advanced Quantum Field Theory, Theoretical Particle Physics
The module description from the syllabus is available here.

Lecturer

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Stefan Först, forste@th.physik.uni-bonn.de

Organization of exercises

Christoph Nega, cnega@th.physik.uni-bonn.de

• The tutorials start on week 14.10.2019 to 18.10.2019.

Groups

Group	Time	Place	Tutor	E-Mail
Group 1	Tuesday, 8-10	2.008 BCTP	Andrei-Ioan Radoaca-Dogaru	andrei.dog95@yahoo.com
Group 2	Thursday, 8-10	2.008 BCTP	Mohamed Belhassen	belhassen.md@gmail.com

Exercise sheets

Exercise sheets will be handed out on Fridays in the lecture and additionally they can be found on this webpage.
They should be returned one week later in the lecture on Friday.

No	Exercise sheet
1	Actions and their symmetries
2	Equations of motion and Poincare algebra
3	Oscillator modes and the string equations of motion
4	The classical Virasoro algebra
5	The quantum Virasoro algebra
6	Lorentz invariance for the quantum bosonic string
7	The ghost system
8	The closed string spectrum and the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude
9	State degenercy and the moduli space of a torus
10	Spinors in various dimensions and RNS superstring
11	The torus partition function
12	The superstring spectrum
13	Spin structres and GSP Projection

Exam

Literature

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