List of string theory topics

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This is a list of string theory topics, by Wikipedia page. See also: list of mathematical topics in quantum theory.

Contents 1 String theory 1.1 String dualities 1.2 Particles and fields 1.3 Branes 2 Supersymmetry 3 Conformal field theory 4 Geometry 5 Holography 6 Gauge theory 7 People

String theory

• strings
• Nambu-Goto action
• Polyakov action
• bosonic string theory
• superstring theory
  • type I string
  • type II string
    • type IIA string theory
    • type IIB string theory
  • heterotic string
• D-brane
• M-theory
  • matrix theory
  • M-theory (simplified explanation)
• Horava-Witten theory
• F-theory
• string field theory
• matrix string theory
• nonlinear sigma model
• tachyon condensation
• RNS formalism
• string theory landscape
• History
  • first superstring revolution
  • second superstring revolution

String dualities

• T-duality
• S-duality
• U-duality
• type I/heterotic duality
• Montonen-Olive duality
• Mysterious duality

Particles and fields

• graviton
• dilaton
• tachyon
• Ramond-Ramond field
• Kalb-Ramond field
• magnetic monopole

Branes

• D-brane
• S-brane
• black brane
• brane cosmology
• quiver diagram

Supersymmetry

• supergravity
• superspace
• Lie superalgebra
• Lie supergroup

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

Geometry

• Kaluza-Klein theory
• compactification
• Why 10 dimensions?
• Kähler manifold
• Ricci-flat manifold
  • Calabi-Yau manifold
  • hyperKähler manifold
    • K3 surface
  • G₂ manifold
  • Spin(7) manifold
• orbifold
• conifold
• orientifold
• moduli
• Horava-Witten domain wall
• K-theory (physics)
• Twisted K-theory

Holography

• holographic principle
• AdS/CFT correspondence
• black holes

Gauge theory

• anomalies
• instantons
• Chern-Simons form
• Bogomol'nyi Prasad Sommerfield bound
• exceptional Lie groups
  • G₂, F₄, E₆, E₇, E₈
• ADE classification
• Dirac string
• p-form electrodynamics

People

• Ofer Aharony
• Nima Arkani-Hamed
• Michael Francis Atiyah
• Tom Banks
• David Berenstein
• Gerald Cleaver
• Robbert Dijkgraaf
• Jacques Distler
• Michael Douglas
• Gia Dvali
• Willy Fischler
• Daniel Friedan
• Ori Ganor
• Michael Green
• Brian Greene
• David Gross
• Steven Gubser
• Amihay Hanany
• Jeffrey Harvey
• Petr Horava
• Gary Horowitz
• Michio Kaku
• Theodor Kaluza
• Igor Klebanov
• Oskar Klein
• David Kutasov
• Juan Maldacena
• Emil Martinec
• Shiraz Minwalla
• Lubos Motl
• Horatiu Nastase
• Dimitri Nanopoulos
• Nikita Nekrasov
• Joseph Polchinski
• Alexander Polyakov
• Arvind Rajaraman
• Lisa Randall
• John Schwarz
• Nathan Seiberg
• Ashoke Sen
• Steve Shenker
• Andrew Strominger
• Leonard Susskind
• Cumrun Vafa
• Gabriele Veneziano
• Erik Verlinde
• Herman Verlinde
• Edward Witten