This paper is devoted to recent progress made towards the understanding of closed bosonic and fermionic string perturbation theory, formulated in a Lorentz-covariant way on Euclidean …
TD Brennan, F Carta, C Vafa - arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00864, 2017 - arxiv.org
We give a brief overview of the string landscape and techniques used to construct string compactifications. We then explain how this motivates the notion of the swampland and …
Twenty-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 …
We derive a formula which expresses any closed string tree amplitude in terms of a sum of the products of appropriate open string tree amplitudes. This formula is applicable to the …
K Becker, M Becker, JH Schwarz - 2006 - books.google.com
String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments …
We calculate the complete low-energy effective action to quartic order in the bosonic fields for the heterotic string. We find that, in addition to the term involving Ξ (3) found previously …
C Hull, B Zwiebach - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The zero modes of closed strings on a torus—the torus coordinates plus dual coordinates conjugate to winding number—parameterize a doubled torus. In closed string field theory …
A general framework for analyzing string propagation on the quotient of a manifold by a discrete group is presented. The conditions necessary for modular invariance and absence …
We prove the on-shell equivalence of the order α′ terms in the string effective equations (for the graviton, dilaton and the antisymmetric tensor) to the vanishing of the corresponding …