Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality
R. Dijkgraaf
TL;DR
This collection of lectures provides a comprehensive, mathematically oriented overview of fields, strings, duality, and related topics in theoretical physics, emphasizing modern concepts like moduli spaces and duality.
Contribution
It offers a modern, mathematically rigorous introduction to various advanced topics in string theory and field theory, connecting them through duality and moduli space perspectives.
Findings
Emphasizes the interconnectedness of fields, strings, and duality.
Provides mathematical insights into BPS states and D-branes.
Highlights the role of moduli spaces in theoretical physics.
Abstract
Notes of my 14 `lectures on everything' given at the 1995 Les Houches school. An introductory course in topological and conformal field theory, strings, gauge fields, supersymmetry and more. The presentation is more mathematical then usual and takes a modern point of view stressing moduli spaces, duality and the interconnectedness of the subject. An apocryphal lecture on BPS states and D-branes is added.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHomotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology · Geometric and Algebraic Topology · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics