Siegel's lectures, PHY 623, S'18

Green-Schwarz superstrings, Loops

Green-Schwarz superstringslecture noteshomeworkbackground material
TrialityXIB5XIB5.2 (due 2/21)VIIB5 (bosonization)
SuperparticleIIIB6IIIB6.1 (due 2/23)IIC (supersymmetry), IIIB1 (scalar particle)
SuperstringXIA9XIA9.1 (due 2/26)IC6, IVA3 (cosets), XC5 (Fierz), XIA5 (T-duality), XIB1 (lightcone)
Particle loops ("review")
Gluon propagatorsVIIIA3, 1st ½VIB8 (background-field gauge)
Maximal supersymmetryVIIIC4VIIIB3 (triangle anomaly cancelation)
Weyl scale gaugesIXB5IXA6.1 (due 3/2)IXA7 (Weyl scale), IXB1 (linearized gravity)
1st-quantizationVIIIC5, 2nd ½VIIA2 (loop ∫'s)
String loops
TopologyXIA2
Partition functionXIC1
Jacobi Θ functionsXIC2XIC2.1 (due 3/9)VIIB5 (bosonization)
Green functionXIC3XIC3.1 (due 3/21)
OpenXIC4VC9 (group theory)
(Break)
ClosedXIC5
SuperXIC6XIC6.1 (due 4/25)IIIC6 (Chern-Simons), XIA3 (S-duality on 2-form B)
More trees
Vertex operatorsXIB9XIB5 (operator products), VIB8 (background-field gauge)