Transcription of INTRODUCTION TO SUPERSTRING THEORY - CERN
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CERN-TH/97-218hep-th/9709062 INTRODUCTION TO SUPERSTRING THEORYE lias Kiritsis THEORY Division, CERN,CH-1211, Geneva 23, SWITZERLANDA bstractIn these lecture notes, an INTRODUCTION to SUPERSTRING THEORY is presented. Classi-cal strings, covariant and light-cone quantization, supersymmetric strings, anomalycancelation, compacti cation, T-duality, supersymmetry breaking, and thresholdcorrections to low-energy couplings are discussed. A brief INTRODUCTION to non-perturbative duality symmetries is also presented at the Catholic University of Leuven andat the University of Padova during the academic year be published by Leuven University 1997 e-mail: Introduction22 Historical perspective33 Classical string Relativisticstrings .. Oscillator 164 Quantization of the bosonic Covariantcanonicalquantization .. Pathintegralquantization.
In these lecture notes, an introduction to superstring theory is presented. Classi-cal strings, covariant and light-cone quantization, supersymmetric strings, anomaly cancelation, compacti cation, T-duality, supersymmetry breaking, and threshold corrections to low-energy couplings are discussed. A brief introduction to non-
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