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A mathematical introduction to string theory [electronic resource] : variational problems, geometric and probabilistic methods / Sergio Albeverio ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 225.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1997.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 135 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781107362383 (electronic bk.)
  • 1107362385 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mathematical introduction to string theory.DDC classification:
  • 539.7/2 22
LOC classification:
  • QC794.6.S85 M38 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 31.29
Online resources:
Contents:
I.0. Introduction -- I.1. The two-dimensional Plateau problem -- I.2. Topological and metric structures on the space of mappings and metrics -- Appendix to I.2. ILH-structures -- I.3. Harmonic maps and global structures -- I.4. Cauchy-Riemann operators -- I.5. Zeta-function and heat-kernel determinants of an operator -- I.6. The Faddeev-Popov procedure. I.6.1. The Faddeev-Popov map. I.6.2. The Faddeev-Popov determinant: the case G=H. I.6.3. The Faddeev-Popov determinant: the general case -- I.7. Determinant bundles -- I.8. Chern classes of determinant bundles -- I.9. Gaussian measures and random fields -- I.10. Functional quantization of the Hoegh-Krohn and Liouville models on a compact surface -- I.11. Small time asymptotics for heat-kernel regularized determinants -- II. 1. Quantization by functional integrals -- II. 2. The Polyakov measure -- II. 3. Formal Lebesgue measures on Hilbert spaces -- II. 4. The Gaussian integration on the space of embeddings.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132) and index.

I.0. Introduction -- I.1. The two-dimensional Plateau problem -- I.2. Topological and metric structures on the space of mappings and metrics -- Appendix to I.2. ILH-structures -- I.3. Harmonic maps and global structures -- I.4. Cauchy-Riemann operators -- I.5. Zeta-function and heat-kernel determinants of an operator -- I.6. The Faddeev-Popov procedure. I.6.1. The Faddeev-Popov map. I.6.2. The Faddeev-Popov determinant: the case G=H. I.6.3. The Faddeev-Popov determinant: the general case -- I.7. Determinant bundles -- I.8. Chern classes of determinant bundles -- I.9. Gaussian measures and random fields -- I.10. Functional quantization of the Hoegh-Krohn and Liouville models on a compact surface -- I.11. Small time asymptotics for heat-kernel regularized determinants -- II. 1. Quantization by functional integrals -- II. 2. The Polyakov measure -- II. 3. Formal Lebesgue measures on Hilbert spaces -- II. 4. The Gaussian integration on the space of embeddings.

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