List of string theory topics
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This is a list of string theory topics. See also: list of mathematical topics in quantum theory.
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[edit] String theory
- strings
- Nambu-Goto action
- Polyakov action
- bosonic string theory
- superstring theory
- N=2 superstring
- D-brane
- M-theory
- F-theory
- string field theory
- matrix string theory
- nonlinear sigma model
- tachyon condensation
- RNS formalism
- string theory landscape
- History
[edit] String dualities
[edit] Particles and fields
[edit] Branes
[edit] Supersymmetry
[edit] Conformal field theory
- Virasoro algebra
- mirror symmetry
- conformal anomaly
- conformal algebra
- superconformal algebra
- vertex operator algebra
- loop algebra
- Kac-Moody algebra
- Wess-Zumino-Witten model
[edit] Geometry
- Kaluza-Klein theory
- compactification
- Why 10 dimensions?
- Kähler manifold
- Ricci-flat manifold
- generalized complex manifold
- orbifold
- conifold
- orientifold
- moduli
- Horava-Witten domain wall
- K-theory (physics)
- Twisted K-theory
[edit] Holography
[edit] Gauge theory
- anomalies
- instantons
- Chern-Simons form
- Bogomol'nyi Prasad Sommerfield bound
- exceptional Lie groups
- ADE classification
- Dirac string
- p-form electrodynamics
[edit] People (partial listing)
- Ofer Aharony
- Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Michael Francis Atiyah
- Tom Banks
- David Berenstein
- Gerald Cleaver
- Robbert Dijkgraaf
- Jacques Distler
- Michael Douglas
- Willy Fischler
- Daniel Friedan
- Ori Ganor
- Michael Green
- Brian Greene
- David Gross
- Amihay Hanany
- Jeffrey Harvey
- Petr Horava
- Michio Kaku
- Theodor Kaluza
- Igor Klebanov
- Oskar Klein
- Juan Maldacena
- Emil Martinec
- Shiraz Minwalla
- Gregory Moore
- Lubos Motl
- Horatiu Nastase
- Dimitri Nanopoulos
- Holger Bech Nielsen
- Joseph Polchinski
- Alexander Polyakov
- Arvind Rajaraman
- Lisa Randall
- John H. Schwarz
- Nathan Seiberg
- Ashoke Sen
- Steve Shenker
- Andrew Strominger
- Leonard Susskind
- Cumrun Vafa
- Gabriele Veneziano
- Erik Verlinde
- Herman Verlinde
- Edward Witten