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Published December 21, 2016 | Submitted
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TASI Lectures on Perturbative String Theories

Abstract

These lecture notes are based on a course on string theories given by Hirosi Ooguri in the first week of TASI 96 Summer School at Boulder, Colorado. It is an introductory course designed to provide students with minimum knowledge before they attend more advanced courses on non-perturbative aspects of string theories in the School. The course consists of five lectures: 1. Bosonic String, 2. Toroidal Compactifications, 3. Superstrings, 4. Heterotic Strings, and 5. Orbifold Compactifications.

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We would like to thank the school organizer K.T. Mahanthappa and the program director B. Greene for their beautiful planning and organization of the school. We thank J. Harvey and J. Polchinski for their useful suggestions on the outline of the course and for J. Feng and M. Peskin for having a preliminary draft of their forthcoming book available to us. We are also grateful to C-S. Chu, Y. Oz and H. Steinacker for reading the draft. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants PHY-951497 and in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098. Z.Y. is supported in part by a Graduate Research Fellowship of the U.S. Department of Education.

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