| Green-Schwarz superstrings | lecture notes | homework | background material |
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| Triality | XIB5 | XIB5.2 (due 2/21) | VIIB5 (bosonization) |
| Superparticle | IIIB6 | IIIB6.1 (due 2/23) | IIC (supersymmetry), IIIB1 (scalar particle) |
| Superstring | XIA9 | XIA9.1 (due 2/26) | IC6, IVA3 (cosets), XC5 (Fierz), XIA5 (T-duality), XIB1 (lightcone) |
| Particle loops ("review") | |
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| Gluon propagators | VIIIA3, 1st ½ | | VIB8 (background-field gauge) |
| Maximal supersymmetry | VIIIC4 | | VIIIB3 (triangle anomaly cancelation) |
| Weyl scale gauges | IXB5 | IXA6.1 (due 3/2) | IXA7 (Weyl scale), IXB1 (linearized gravity) |
| 1st-quantization | VIIIC5, 2nd ½ | | VIIA2 (loop ∫'s) |
| String loops | |
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| Topology | XIA2 | | |
| Partition function | XIC1 | | |
| Jacobi Θ functions | XIC2 | XIC2.1 (due 3/9) | VIIB5 (bosonization) |
| Green function | XIC3 | XIC3.1 (due 3/21) | |
| Open | XIC4 | | VC9 (group theory) |
| (Break) | |
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| Closed | XIC5 | | |
| Super | XIC6 | XIC6.1 (due 4/25) | IIIC6 (Chern-Simons), XIA3 (S-duality on 2-form B) |
| More trees | |
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| Vertex operators | XIB9 | | XIB5 (operator products), VIB8 (background-field gauge) |