nLab From Fields to Strings -- Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics

This page collects material related to the book

• Mikhail Shifman, Arkady Vainshtein, John Wheater (eds.),

  From Fields to Strings – Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics

  Ian Kogan Memorial Collection (In 3 Volumes)

  World Scientific 2005

  doi:10.1142/5621

Volume 1

Topics:

• from perturbative quantum field theory to string theory

• quantum chromodynamics and quantum field theory

• condensed matter physics

On the Schwinger effect of vacuum polarization:

• Gerald Dunne, Heisenberg-Euler Effective Lagrangians: Basics and Extensions, in: Misha Shifman, Arkady Vainshtein, John Wheater (eds.), From Fields to Strings – Circumnavigating Theoretical Physics, pp. 445-522, World Scientific 2005 (arXiv:hep-th/0406216, doi:10.1142/9789812775344_0014)

Volume 2

Topics:

• grand unified theories, Kaluza-Klein theory, cosmology

• conformal field theory

• AdS/CFT correspondence

Volume 3

Topics:

• string theory

category: reference