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| Udgave: |
Forår 2013 NAT |
| Point: |
7,5 |
| Blokstruktur: |
4. blok |
| Skemagruppe: |
B |
| Fagområde: |
fys |
| Institutter: |
Niels Bohr Institutet |
| Uddannelsesdel: |
Kandidat niveau |
| Kontaktpersoner: |
Niels Obers, tlf. 35 32 52 11 eller 30 58 93 11, kontor: Fc-6, e-mail. obers@nbi.dk
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| Andre undervisere: |
Troels Harmark, Phone number: 353-25384, Office number: Fc-4 (Blv), E-mail: harmark@nbi.dk
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| Skema- oplysninger: |
 Vis skema for kurset
Samlet oversigt over tid og sted for alle kurser inden for Lektionsplan for Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet Forår 2013 NAT |
| Undervisnings- periode: |
22. april - 23 juni, 2013 |
| Undervisnings- form: |
Lectures and exercise sessions. |
| Formål: |
To gain knowledge of the foundations of string theory as well as some
more advanced topics that are useful for current developments.
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| Indhold: |
This course gives an introduction to string theory. The first part of the course consists of a treatment of the fundamental principles of string theory, while the second part focuses on new developments and applications. Topics include the classical relativistic string, open and closed bosonic strings, quantization, interactions and vertex operators, superstrings, modular invariance, D-branes, T-duality and S-duality. |
| Målbeskrivelse: |
The purpose of this course is that the student obtains a basic understanding of string theory as well as some more advanced features of the theory that play a role in important applications of string theory.
In particular, this means that when the course is finished it is expected that the student is able to:
- understand how to quantize the open and closed bosonic string and compute the spectrum, with a detailed understanding of the massless spectrum and the first excited levels.
- understand the concept of compactification of a space dimension, its effect on the bosonic string spectrum, and T-duality symmetry
- have a basic understanding of the main ingredients of
two-dimensional conformal field theory and the calculation of scattering amplitudes in string theory.
- understand the essentials of the generalization of the bosonic string to the superstring and the concept of world-sheet and space-time supersymmetry.
- understand the main elements of strings propagating in non-trivial backgrounds and the formulation of string theories at low energies as a (super)gravity theories.
- know what a D-brane is, i.e. understand its description in terms of open strings as well as its manifestation as a soliton in the supergravity theory, and have a conceptual understanding of the relation between multiple D-branes and non-abelian symmetry.
- be familiar with the general picture of the possible supersymmetric string theories and the perturbative and non-perturbative dualities that relate these.
- be familiar with the simplest type of black hole in string theory for which there exists a D-brane interpretation of the black hole entropy
The highest mark (12) is given for excellent exam performance that demonstrates full mastering of the above mentioned teaching goals with no or only small irrelevant gaps. The grade 2 is given to a student who has achieved only minimally the course goals.
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| Lærebøger: |
Notes (available on internet). The book "String Theory ina Nutshell'' (Princeton University Press), E. Kiritsis,is recommended but not mandatory to have. |
| Tilmelding: |
Tilmelding foregår på Selvbetjeningen i perioden 15. november - 1. december.
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| Faglige forudsætninger: |
General relativity and cosmology, elementary particle physics, quantum field theory I. |
| Eksamensform: |
Mundtlig, intern censur og karakter efter 7-trin skalaen.
Reeksamen: Mundtlig.
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| Eksamen: |
Muntlig prøve d. 20-21. juni 2013.
Reeksamen: Mundtlig prøve d. 23. august 2013. |
| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
29/10-2012 |