String theory

Resource Letter NSST-1: The Nature and Status of String Theory by Marolf

Books

Lubos review of string theory text books

• String Theory by Joe Polchinski (two volumes, CUP, 1998): There are corrections listed on the Big Book of String homepage on Polchinski's homepage. Some of these corrections were made to the reprinting in 2000.
  • Volume 1: An Introduction to the Bosonic String
  • Volume 2: Superstring Theory and Beyond
• Superstring Theory by Michael Green, John Schwarz and Edward Witten (two volumes, CUP, 1988)
  • Volume 1: Introduction
  • Volume 2: Loop Amplitudes, Anomalies and Phenomenology
• String Theory and M-Theory by Katrin Becker, Melanie Becker and John Schwarz (CUP, 2006)
• A First Course in String Theory by Barton Zwiebach, (CUP)
• Supersymmetry and String Theory: Beyond the Standard Model by Michael Dine (CUP, 2007)
• Gravity and Strings by Tomás Ortín (CUP, 2004)

Reviews

• D'Hoker
• Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality by R. Dijkgraaf (hep-th/9703136, abs, ps, pdf, 152 pages, 31 figures)
• Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory by Elias Kiritsis (hep-th/9708130, abs, ps, pdf, 60 pages, 4 figures)
• String Primer by E. Alvarez and P. Meessen (hep-th/9810240, abs, ps, pdf, 87 pages, 4 figures)
• TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theories by Hirosi Ooguri, Zheng Yin (hep-th/9612254, abs, ps, pdf, 80 pages)
• What is String Theory? by Joseph Polchinski (hep-th/9411028, abs, ps, pdf, 153 pages, 30 figures)
• An Introduction to the Covariant Quantization of Superstrings by P.A. Grassi, G. Policastro, P. van Nieuwenhuizen (hep-th/0302147, abs, ps, pdf, 23 pages)
• Lectures on Two-Loop Superstrings by Eric D'Hoker, D.H. Phong (hep-th/0211111, abs, ps, pdf, 37 pages, 3 figures)
• ICTP Lectures on Covariant Quantization of the Superstring by Nathan Berkovits (hep-th/0209059, abs, ps, pdf, 43 pages)
• Open Strings by Carlo Angelantonj, Augusto Sagnotti (hep-th/0204089, abs, ps, pdf, 156 pages)
• TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theory and Ramond-Ramond Flux by L. Dolan (hep-th/0201209, abs, ps, pdf, 39 pages)
• An Introduction to Conformal Field Theory by Matthias R Gaberdiel (hep-th/9910156, abs, ps, pdf, 69 pages)
• A New Description of the Superstring by Nathan Berkovits (hep-th/9604123, abs, ps, pdf)
• Introduction to Superstring Theory by E. Kiritsis (hep-th/9709062, abs, ps, pdf, 244 pages, 22 figures)
• An Introduction to Non-perturbative String Theory by Ashoke Sen (hep-th/9802051, abs, ps, pdf, 129 pages, 22 figures)
• Introduction to Superstring Theory by John H. Schwarz (hep-ex/0008017, abs, ps, pdf, 44 pages)
• Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions by Stefan Forste (hep-th/0110055, abs, ps, pdf, 238 pages)
• String Theory or Field Theory? by A. Marshakov (hep-th/0212114, abs, ps, pdf, 56 pages, 18 figures)
• String theory: an update by Jan de Boer (hep-th/0210224, abs, ps, pdf, 20 pages, 2 figures)
• Introduction to String Theory by Thomas Mohaupt (hep-th/0207249, abs, ps, pdf, 78 pages)
• BUSSTEPP Lectures on String Theory by Richard J. Szabo (hep-th/0207142, abs, ps, pdf, 90 pages, 24 figures)
• Introduction to M-theory for relativists and cosmologists by Nobuyoshi Ohta (gr-qc/0205036, abs, ps, pdf, 28 pages, 7 figures)
• Topics on Strings, Branes and Calabi-Yau Compactifications by Hugo Garcia-Compean, Oscar Loaiza-Brito (hep-th/0010046, abs, ps, pdf, 50 pages, no figures)
• Lectures on Strings, D-branes and Gauge Theories by Hugo Garcia-Compean, Oscar Loaiza-Brito (hep-th/0003019, abs, ps, pdf, 38 pages, no figures)
• An introduction to perturbative and non-perturbative string theory by Ignatios Antoniadis, Guillaume Ovarlez (hep-th/9906108, abs, ps, pdf, 17 pages)
• Supergravity, Brane Dynamics and String Duality by P. West (hep-th/9811101, abs, ps, pdf, 109 pages, 2 figures)
• Introduction to M Theory by Miao Li (hep-th/9811019, abs, ps, pdf, 76 pages)
• String Primer by E. Alvarez, P. Meessen (hep-th/9810240, abs, ps, pdf, 87 pages, 4 figures)
• Lectures on Strings and Dualities by Cumrun Vafa (hep-th/9702201, abs, ps, pdf, 53 pages)
• Fields, Strings and Branes by C. Gomez, R. Hernandez (hep-th/9711102, abs, ps, pdf, 176 pages, 6 figures)
• Les Houches Lectures on Fields, Strings and Duality by R. Dijkgraaf (hep-th/9703136, abs, ps, pdf, 152 pages, 31 figures)