Foreword
Preface
Notation
10 Type I and type II superstrings
10.1 The superconformal algebra
10.2 Ramond and Neveu-Schwarz sectors
10.3 Vertex operators and bosonization
10.4 The superconformal ghosts
10.5 Physical states
10.6 Superstring theories in ten dimensions
10.7 Modular invariance
10.8 Divergences of type I theory
Exercises
11 The heterotic string
11.1 World-sheet supersymmetries
11.2 The SO(32) and E8 x E8 heterotic strings
11.3 Other ten-dimensional heterotic strings
11.4 A little Lie algebra
11.5 Current algebras
11.6 The bosonic construction and toroidal compactification
Exercises
12 Superstring interactions
12.1 Low energy supergravity
12.2 Anomalies
12.3 Superspace and superfields
12.4 Tree-level amplitudes
12.5 General amplitudes
12.6 One-loop amplitudes
Exercises
13 D-branes
13.1 T-duality of type II strings
13.2 T-duality of type I strings
13.3 The D-brane charge and action
13.4 D-brane interactions: statics
13.5 D-brane interactions: dynamics
13.6 D-brane interactions: bound states
Exercises
14 Strings at strong coupling
14.1 Type IIB string and SL(2,Z) duality
14.2 U-duality
14.3 SO(32) type I-heterotic duality
14.4 Type IIA string and M-theory
14.5 The E8 x Es heterotic string
14.6 What is string theory?
14.7 Is M for matrix?
14.8 Black hole quantum mechanics
Exercises
15 Advanced CFT
15.1 Representations of the Virasoro algebra
15.2 The conformal bootstrap