Table of Contents
- Special relativity and extra dimensions
- Electromagnetism and gravitation in various dimensions
- Nonrelativistic strings
- The relativistic point particle
- Relativistic strings
- String parameterization and classical motion
- World-sheet currents
- Light-cone relativistic strings
- Light-cone fields and particles
- The relativistic quantum point particle
- Relativistic quantum open strings
- Relativistic quantum closed strings
- D-branes and gauge fields
- String charge, electric charge, and particle physics
- String thermodynamics and black holes
- T-duality of closed strings
- T-duality of open strings
- Electromagnetic fields on D-branes
- Nonlinear and Born-Infeld electrodynamics
- Covariant string quantization
- String interactions and Riemann surfaces
- Loop amplitudes in string theory
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