string theory fundamentals

String theory was conceived partly by accident and partly by design. It arose in the study of scattering amplitudes for hadronic bound ...

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String theory started out as a theory to explain particles, such as hadrons, as the different higher vibrational modes of a string. In most current formula ...

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The idea that Einstein's Dear Lord permits some string theorist to find a closure to fundamental physics, so that for the rest of all days the curiosity of ...

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Here, we discuss two examples for the generation of such hierarchies that cannot be explained in purely four-dimensional quantum field theory.

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The goal of this paper is to explain the significance of the conformal symmetry of string theory. Along the way we will introduce the basics of string theory in ...

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It postulates a certain spectrum of fundamental particle states but why these? In particular these particle states form three families, each of ...

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The purpose of this article is to explain some of the unusual features of relativistic strings and to show one way in which string theory may describe the ...

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String theory is an extension of quantum field theory which includes gravity and provides a framework for constructing models in particle physics and cosmology.

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This theory is based on the principles of classical mechanics and not of quantum mechanics. Since other forces in nature obeys the rules of quantum mechanics, ...

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The basic idea of string theory goes back to the late 1960s. (For textbooks on string theory, see Polchinski 1999, Zwiebach 2007, Becker, ...

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Duality is the main new concept that has been stimulating the recent advances in supersymmetric particle6 and string theory. Roughly speaking, duality is a map ...

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