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PHYSICS 237A

Bruinwalk
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String Theory

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Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 221A, 221B, 221C, 230A. Historical introduction to string theory, including classical bosonic string and its symmetries, light cone quantization, covariant quantization, conformal field theory, Polyakov path integral, tree level amplitudes, and loop amplitudes. S/U grading.

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