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1、BookreviewStringTheoryinaNutshellusefulbothinteachingcoursesonstringtheoryandEliasKiritsisforthosewhoarestudyingbythemselves.Anice2007Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversityPressfeatureofthisbookisthatreferencesaremade608pp,UK£41.95,US$65.00tospecificpagesearlierinthebook,rathe
2、rthanISBN:978-0-691-12230-4tochapters,whichishelpfulforstudentsworkingthroughthebookontheirown.Thebook‘StringTheoryinaNutshell’byEliasInsummary,‘StringTheoryinaNutshell’isKiritsisprovidesacomprehensiveintroductiontoavaluableadditiontotheexistingstringtheorymodernstringt
3、heory.Stringtheoryistheleadingtextbooks;itiscomplementarytothepreviouscandidateforatheorythatsuccessfullyunifiesallbooksandgivesagoodtreatmentofsubsequentfundamentalforcesofnature,includinggravity.developments.ItislikelytobecomeastapleThesubjecthasbeencontinuouslydevelop
4、ingreferenceonthesubject,usedbothbystudentsandsincetheearly1970s,withclassictextbooksonresearchers.thesubjectbeingthoseofGreen,SchwarzandWitten(1987)andPolchinski(1998).SincethelatterwaspublishedtherehavebeensubstantialKostasSkenderisdevelopments,inparticularinunderstan
5、dingblackInstituteofTheoreticalPhysics,Universiteitvanholesandgravity/gaugetheorydualities.AAmsterdam,Valckenierstraat65,NL-1018XEtextbooktreatmentofthisimportantmaterialisAmsterdam,TheNetherlandsclearlyneeded,bothbystudentsandresearchersinstringtheoryandbymathematician
6、sandphysicistsworkinginrelatedfields.Thisbookhasagoodselectionofmaterial,startingfrombasicsandmovingintoclassicandmoderntopics.Inparticular,Kiritsis’presentationofthebasicmaterialiscomplementarytothatoftheearliertextbooksandheincludesanumberoftopicswhicharenoteasilyfound
7、orcoveredadequatelyelsewhere,forexample,loopcorrectionstostringeffectivecouplings.Overallthebooknicelycoversthemajoradvancesofthelasttenyears,including(non-perturbative)stringdualities,blackholephysics,AdS/CFTandmatrixmodels.Itprovidesaconcisebutfairlycompleteintroducti
8、ontothesesubjectswhichcanbeusedbothbystudentsandbyresearchers.Moreovertheemphasisisonresultsthatarereasonablye
