Author : Jürgen Jost
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 0821843362
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Bosonic Strings: A Mathematical Treatment by : Jürgen Jost
Download or read book Bosonic Strings: A Mathematical Treatment written by Jürgen Jost and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a mathematical treatment of Bosonic string theory from the point of view of global geometry. As motivation, Jost presents the theory of point particles and Feynman path integrals. He provides detailed background material, including the geometry of Teichmuller space, the conformal and complex geometry of Riemann surfaces, and the subtleties of boundary regularity questions. The high point is the description of the partition function for Bosonic strings as a finite-dimensional integral over a moduli space of Riemann surfaces. Jost concludes with some topics related to open and closed strings and $D$-branes. Bosonic Strings is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in the mathematics underlying string theory.