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String theory continues to progress at an astonishing rate, and this book brings the reader up to date with the latest developments and the most active areas of research in the field. Building on the foundations laid in his Introduction to Superstrings and M Theory, Professor Kaku discusses such topics as the classification of conformal string theories, knot theory, the Yang-Baxter relation, quantum groups, and the insights into 11-dimensional strings recently obtained from M-theory. New chapters discuss such topics as Seiberg- Witten theory, M theory and duality., and D-branes. Several chapters review the fundamentals of string theory, making the presentation of the material self-contained while kee** overlap with the earlier book to a minimum. This book conveys the vitality of the current research and places readers at its forefront.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conformal Field Theory and Perturbation Theory
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Front Matter
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Nonperturbative Methods
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Back Matter
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"...because of its wide range in topics, it becomes extremely handy as a 'reference manual'...Kaku's book covers most of the 'hot topics' from the period 1985 through 1996 in a concise but still quite complete way, it fulfills this task in a superb way." Physicalia
"¿ A comprehensive survey of essentially all recent research undertaken in string theory and related fields¿ the author¿s ability to present such an enormous variety of material is astonishing, resulting in a book that is up-to-date and thorough." Physics Today
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strings, Conformal Fields, and M-Theory
Authors: Michio Kaku
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0503-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98892-4Published: 17 December 1999
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6792-8Published: 04 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0503-6Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0938-037X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 531
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