Title String Theory Compactifications Author(s) Gra??a, Mariana;Triendl, Hagen Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. Description VII, 74 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note The lectures in this book provide graduate students and non-specialist researchers with a concise introduction to the concepts and formalism required to reduce the ten-dimensional string theories to the observable four-dimensional space-time - a procedure called string compactification. The text starts with a very brief introduction to string theory, first working out its massless spectrum and showing how the condition on the number of dimensions arises. It then dwells on the different possible internal manifolds, from the simplest to the most relevant phenomenologically, thereby showing that the most elegant description is through an extension of ordinary Riemannian geometry termed generalized geometry, which was first introduced by Hitchin. Last but not least, the authors review open problems in string phenomenology, such as the embedding of the Standard Model and obtaining de Sitter solutions ISBN,Price 9783319543161 Keyword(s) 1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - SPRINGER 3. Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences 4. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 5. Quantum Field Theories, String Theory 6. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 7. STRING THEORY Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I09775     On Shelf