# nLab Quantum Fields and Strings

## Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes

This entry collects linked keywords for the book

Parts of this appear separately elsewhere, for instance

on fundamental supergeometry needed for describing fermion particles (and superstrings). See also

While advertized as “A course for mathematicians”, experience shows that it is not really suited for pure mathematicians without previous exposition to and tolerance for physics, particularly beyond the first chapters (which show strong ambition to be mathematically precise) towards the following lectures (which are mainly standard lectures of theoretical physicists). But it is much better than the average physics text.

More in detail: this is a long collection of (in parts) long lectures by many top string theorists and also by some genuine top mathematicians. Correspondingly it covers a lot of ground, while still being introductory. Especially towards the beginning there is a strong effort towards trying to formalize or at least systematize much of the standard lore. But one can see that eventually the task of doing that throughout had been overwhelming. Nevertheless, this is probably the best source that there is out there. If you only ever touch a single book on string theory, touch this one.

# Contents

## Volume II

### Part 4: Dynamical Aspects of QFT

#### Dynamics of $N = 1$ Supersymmetric Field Theories in Four Dimensions

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