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| Preface | |
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| The Standard Model and beyond | |
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| The Standard Model of particle physics | |
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| Grand Unified Theories | |
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| The SM fine-tuning puzzles | |
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| Extra dimensions | |
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| Supersymmetry | |
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| Four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetry | |
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| SUSY breaking | |
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| N=1 Supergravity | |
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| Extended supersymmetry and supergravity | |
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| Non-perturbative dynamics in supersymmetric theories | |
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| Low-energy supersymmetry and the MSSM | |
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| Introduction to string theory: the bosonic string | |
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| Generalities | |
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| Closed bosonic string | |
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| Open bosonic string | |
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| Unoriented bosonic string theory | |
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| Superstrings | |
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| Fermions on the worldsheet | |
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| Type II string theories | |
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| Heterotic string theories | |
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| Type I string theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Toroidal compactification of superstrings | |
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| Type EI superstrings | |
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| Heterotic superstrings | |
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| Type I toroidal compactification and D-branes | |
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| Branes and string duality | |
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| D-branes in string theory | |
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| Supergravity description of non-perturbative states | |
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| Strings at strong coupling and 10d string duality | |
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| AdS/CFT and gauge/gravity dualities | |
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| Brane-antibrane systems and non-BPS D-branes | |
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| Calabi-Yau compactification of heterotic superstrings | |
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| A road map for string compactifications | |
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| Generalities on Calabi-Yau compactification | |
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| Heterotic CY compactifications: standard embedding | |
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| Heterotic CY compactifications: non-standard embedding | |
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| CY compactifications of Horava-Witten theory | |
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| Heterotic string orbifolds and other exact CFT constructions | |
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| Toroidal orbifolds | |
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| Heterotic compactification on toroidal orbifolds | |
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| Non-standard embeddings and Wilson lines | |
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| Asymmetric orbifolds | |
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| The fermionic construction | |
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| Gepner models | |
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| Heterotic string compactifications: effective action | |
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| A first look at the heterotic 4d N = 1 effective action | |
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| Heterotic M-theory effective action | |
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| Effective action of orbifold models | |
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| Gauge couplings and Kac-Moody level | |
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| Anomalous U/(1)s and Fayet-Illiopoulos terms | |
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| T-duality and the effective action | |
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| Orbifold model building revisited | |
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| Higher Kac-Moody level models and string GUTs | |
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| Type IIA orientifolds: intersecting brane worlds | |
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| Type E on CY and orientifolding | |
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| Intersecting D6-branes in flat 10d space | |
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| Compactification and an example of a toroidal model | |
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| Introducing O6-planes | |
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| Non-supersymmetric particle physics models | |
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| Supersymmetric particle physics models in T<sup>6</sup>/Z<sub>2</sub> � Z<sub>2</sub> orientifolds | |
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| Generalizations and related constructions | |
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| Type IIB orientifolds | |
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| Generalities of type IIB orientifold actions | |
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| Type IIB toroidal orientifolds | |
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| D-branes at singularities | |
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| Magnetized D-brane models | |
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| F-theory model building | |
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| Type II compactifications: effective action | |
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| The closed string moduli in type II orientifolds | |
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| K�hler metrics of matter fields in toroidal orientifolds | |
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| The gauge kinetic function | |
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| U(1)'s and FI terms | |
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| Superpotentials and Yukawa couplings in type II orientifolds | |
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| Effective action of an MSSM-like example | |
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| Yukawa couplings in local F-theory models | |
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| String instantons and effective field theory | |
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| Instantons in field theory and string theory | |
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| Fermion zero modes for D-brane instantons | |
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| Phenomenological applications | |
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| Flux compatifications and moduli stabilization | |
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| Type ITB with 3-form fluxes | |
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| Fluxes in type II toroidal orientifolds | |
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| D-branes and fluxes | |
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| Mirror symmetry, T-duality, and non-geometric fluxes | |
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| Fluxes in other string constructions | |
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| Moduli stabilization and supersymmetry breaking in string theory | |
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| SUSY and SUSY breaking in string compactifications | |
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| SUSY breaking and moduli fixing in heterotic models | |
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| SUSY breaking and moduli fixing in type II orientifolds | |
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| Soft terms from fluxes in type IIB orientifolds | |
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| General parametrization of moduli/dilaton induced SUSY breaking | |
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| Modulus/dilaton dominated SUSY breaking spectra and the LHC | |
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| Other mediation mechanisms in string theory | |
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| Further phenomenological properties. Strings and cosmology | |
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| Scales and unification in string theory | |
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| Axions in string theory | |
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| R-parity and B/L-violation | |
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| Extra U(1) gauge bosons | |
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| Strings at the weak scale | |
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| Strings and cosmology | |
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| The space of string vacua | |
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| General properties of the massless spectrum in string compactifications | |
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| The flavour landscape | |
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| The flux landscape | |
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| Outlook | |
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| Modular functions | |
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| Some topological tools | |
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| Forms and cycles: cohomology and homology | |
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| Hodge dual | |
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| Application: p-form gauge fields | |
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| Homotopy groups | |
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| Spectrum and charges of a semi-realistic Z<sub>3</sub> heterotic orbifold | |
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| Computation of RR tadpoles | |
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| RR tadpoles in type I theory | |
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| Tadpoles for T<sup>6</sup>/Z<sub>N</sub> type HB orientifolds | |
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| CFT toolkit | |
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| Conformal symmetry and conformal fields | |
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| Vertex operators and structure of scattering amplitudes | |
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| Kac-Moody algebras | |
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| N = 2 superconformal field theories | |
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| Rational conformal field theory and simple currents | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |