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020			_a9781107029118
040			_aICTS-TIFR
050			_aQC794.6.S85
100			_aGreen Michael B.
245			_aSuperstring theory: volume 1. introduction
250			_a25th Anniversary Edition
260			_bCambridge University Press _aCambridge, UK _c2012
300			_ax, 470 p.
490			_aCambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
520			_aTwenty-five years ago, Michael Green, John Schwarz, and Edward Witten wrote two volumes on string theory. Published during a period of rapid progress in this subject, these volumes were highly influential for a generation of students and researchers. Despite the immense progress that has been made in the field since then, the systematic exposition of the foundations of superstring theory presented in these volumes is just as relevant today as when first published. A self-contained introduction to superstrings, Volume 1 begins with an elementary treatment of the bosonic string, before describing the incorporation of additional degrees of freedom: fermionic degrees of freedom leading to supersymmetry and internal quantum numbers leading to gauge interactions. A detailed discussion of the evaluation of tree-approximation scattering amplitudes is also given. Featuring a new preface setting the work in context in light of recent advances, this book is invaluable for graduate students and researchers in general relativity and elementary particle theory (Source: Publisher).
700			_aSchwarz, John H.
700			_aWitten, Edward
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