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| Other authors / contributors: | Triendl, Hagen, author.
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| ISBN: | 9783319543161
3319543164
9783319543154
3319543156
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31, 2017).
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Graña, Mariana. String theory compactifications. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017] 9783319543154 3319543156
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-54316-1
10.1007/978-3-319-54
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