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  • Formatas: Hardback, 664 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 244x170x37 mm, weight: 1250 g, 3 Halftones, unspecified; 60 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Apr-2012
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521197902
  • ISBN-13: 9780521197908
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 664 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 244x170x37 mm, weight: 1250 g, 3 Halftones, unspecified; 60 Line drawings, unspecified
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Apr-2012
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521197902
  • ISBN-13: 9780521197908
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String theory is currently the best candidate for a unified theory of all forces and all forms of matter in nature. As such, it has become a focal point for physical and philosophical discussions. This unique book explores the history of the theory's early stages of development, as told by its main protagonists. The book journeys from the first version of the theory (the so-called dual resonance model) in the late sixties, as an attempt to describe the physics of strong interactions outside the framework of quantum field theory, to its reinterpretation around the mid-seventies as a quantum theory of gravity unified with the other forces, and its successive developments up to the superstring revolution in 1984. Providing important background information to current debates on the theory, this book is essential reading for students and researchers in physics, as well as historians and philosophers of science.

Recenzijos

"These writings capture the excitement of the field and the rigor of the physical and mathematical constructs needed to capture a portion of the universe... this book remains uniquely valuable to students preparing to study string theory and those who study the history and philosophy of science. Highly recommended." J.R. Burciaga, Choice Magazine

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Explores the early stages of the development of string theory; essential reading for physicists, historians and philosophers of science.
List of contributors
x
Photographs of contributors xiv
Preface xxi
Abbreviations and acronyms xxiv
Part I Overview
1(80)
1 Introduction and synopsis
3(14)
2 Rise and fall of the hadronic string
17(20)
Gabriele Veneziano
3 Gravity, unification, and the superstring
37(26)
John H. Schwarz
4 Early string theory as a challenging case study for philosophers
63(18)
Elena Castellani
Early String Theory
Part II The prehistory: the analytic S-matrix
81(52)
5 Introduction to Part II
83(17)
5.1 Introduction
83(1)
5.2 Perturbative quantum field theory
84(4)
5.3 The hadron spectrum
88(3)
5.4 S-matrix theory
91(6)
5.5 The Veneziano amplitude
97(3)
6 Particle theory in the Sixties: from current algebra to the Veneziano amplitude
100(16)
Macro Ademollo
7 The path to the Veneziano model
116(6)
Hector R. Rubinstein
8 Two-component duality and strings
122(7)
Peter G.O. Freund
9 Note on the prehistory of string theory
129(4)
Murray Gell-Mann
Part III The Dual Resonance Model
133(86)
10 Introduction to Part III
135(21)
10.1 Introduction
135(2)
10.2 N-point dual scattering amplitudes
137(8)
10.3 Conformal symmetry
145(2)
10.4 Operator formalism
147(3)
10.5 Physical states
150(3)
10.6 The tachyon
153(3)
11 From the S-matrix to string theory
156(23)
Paolo Di Vecchia
12 Reminiscence on the birth of string theory
179(12)
Joel A. Shapiro
13 Personal recollections
191(2)
Daniele Amati
14 Early string theory at Fermilab and Rutgers
193(5)
Louis Clavelli
15 Dual amplitudes in higher dimensions: a personal view
198(4)
Claud Lovelace
16 Personal recollections on dual models
202(6)
Renato Musto
17 Remembering the `supergroup' collaboration
208(6)
Francesco Nicodemi
18 The `3-Reggeon vertex'
214(5)
Stefano Sciuto
Part IV The string
219(110)
19 Introduction to Part IV
221(15)
19.1 Introduction
221(2)
19.2 The vibrating string
223(3)
19.3 The rotating rod
226(2)
19.4 The relativistic point particle
228(2)
19.5 The string action
230(1)
19.6 The quantum theory of the string
231(5)
20 From dual models to relativistic strings
236(26)
Peter Goddard
21 The first string theory: personal recollections
262(4)
Leonard Susskind
22 The string picture of the Veneziano model
266(9)
Holger B. Nielsen
23 From the S-matrix to string theory
275(8)
Yoichiro Nambu
24 The analogue model for string amplitudes
283(11)
David B. Fairlie
25 Factorization in dual models and functional integration in string theory
294(18)
Stanley Mandelstam
26 The hadronic origins of string theory
312(17)
Richard C. Brower
Towards Modern String Theory
Part V Beyond the bosonic string
329(90)
27 Introduction to Part V
331(15)
27.1 Introduction
331(2)
27.2 Chan--Paton factors
333(1)
27.3 The Lovelace--Shapiro amplitude
334(1)
27.4 The Ramond model
335(3)
27.5 The Neveu--Schwarz model
338(1)
27.6 The Ramond--Neveu--Schwarz model
339(2)
27.7 World-sheet supersymmetry
341(3)
27.8 Affine Lie algebras
344(2)
28 From dual fermion to superstring
346(15)
David I. Olive
29 Dual model with fermions: memoirs of an early string theorist
361(12)
Pierre Ramond
30 Personal recollections
373(5)
Andre Neveu
31 Aspects of fermionic dual models
378(15)
Edward Corrigan
32 The dual quark models
393(14)
Korkut Bardakci
Martin B. Halpern
33 Remembering the dawn of relativistic strings
407(7)
Jean-Loup Gervais
34 Early string theory in Cambridge: personal recollections
414(5)
Claus Montonen
Part VI The superstring
419(90)
35 Introduction to Part VI
421(26)
35.1 Introduction
421(2)
35.2 The field theory limit
423(4)
35.3 Unification of all interactions
427(4)
35.4 The QCD string
431(2)
35.5 A detour on spinors
433(1)
35.6 Spacetime supersymmetry
434(3)
35.7 The GSO projection
437(2)
35.8 The Kaluza--Klein reduction and supersymmetry breaking
439(3)
35.9 The local supersymmetric action for the superstring
442(2)
35.10 Supergravity
444(3)
36 Supersymmetry in string theory
447(12)
Ferdinando Gliozzi
37 Gravity from strings: personal reminiscences of early developments
459(15)
Tamiaki Yoneya
38 From the Nambu--Goto to the σ-model action
474(10)
Lars Brink
39 Locally supersymmetric action for the superstring
484(6)
Paolo Di Vecchia
40 Personal recollections
490(6)
Eugene Cremmer
41 The scientific contributions of Joel Scherk
496(13)
John H. Schwarz
Part VII Preparing the string renaissance
509(60)
42 Introduction to Part VII
511(16)
42.1 Introduction
511(1)
42.2 Supergravity unification of all interactions
512(2)
42.3 A novel light-cone formalism
514(4)
42.4 Modern covariant quantization
518(3)
42.5 Anomaly cancellation
521(4)
42.6 A new era starts or, maybe better, continues
525(2)
43 From strings to superstrings: a personal perspective
527(17)
Michael B. Green
44 Quarks, strings and beyond
544(8)
Alexander M. Polyakov
45 The rise of superstring theory
552(17)
Andrea Cappelli
Filippo Colomo
Appendix A Theoretical tools of the Sixties 569(10)
Appendix B The Veneziano amplitude 579(7)
Appendix C From the string action to the Dual Resonance Model 586(18)
Appendix D World-sheet and target-space supersymmetry 604(16)
Appendix E The field theory limit 620(6)
Index 626
Andrea Cappelli graduated in physics from the University of Florence in 1983 and received his PhD from the same university in 1987. He is currently Director of Research at the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Section of Florence. His field of research is quantum field theory, the main tool of theoretical physics that allows one to describe elementary particles and fundamental forces. In particular, he is interested in the exact solutions of this theory that are possible in low-dimensional systems and in presence of extended symmetries such as conformal invariance. Andrea Cappelli has also been studying applications of exact solutions: to string theory, the theory that could unify particle physics with gravity and to condensed-matter systems in one or two space dimensions that present novel non-perturbative phenomena, such as fractionally charged excitations and are interesting for technological applications. Cappelli has published 60 papers in international journals and has edited one book of conference proceedings. He has co-organized several international conferences in Italy and abroad and coordinates the national research project, 'Low-Dimensional Field Theory, Integrable Systems and Applications'. He is also editor of the Journal of High-Energy Physics (JHEP) and the Journal of Statistical Physics (JSTAT). Elena Castellani is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Florence. Her research work has focussed on such issues as symmetry, physical objects, reductionism and emergence, structuralism and realism. Filippo Colomo is a Researcher at the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Florence. His current research interests lie in theoretical and mathematical physics. Paolo Di Vecchia is Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics at Nordita, Stockholm, and at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen. He has worked on several aspects of theoretical particle physics and has contributed to the development of string theory since its birth in 1968.