Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- A note on the choice of metric
- Text website
- Part 1 Effective field theory: the StandardModel, supersymmetry, unification
- Part 2 Supersymmetry
- Part 3 String theory
- 20 Introduction
- 21 The bosonic string
- 22 The superstring
- 23 The heterotic string
- 24 Effective actions in ten dimensions
- 25 Compactification of string theory I. Tori and orbifolds
- 26 Compactification of string theory II. Calabi–Yau compactifications
- 27 Dynamics of string theory at weak coupling
- 28 Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory
- 29 Large and warped extra dimensions
- 30 The landscape: a challenge to the naturalness principle
- 31 Coda: Where are we heading?
- Part 4 Appendices
- References
- Index
26 - Compactification of string theory II. Calabi–Yau compactifications
from Part 3 - String theory
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- A note on the choice of metric
- Text website
- Part 1 Effective field theory: the StandardModel, supersymmetry, unification
- Part 2 Supersymmetry
- Part 3 String theory
- 20 Introduction
- 21 The bosonic string
- 22 The superstring
- 23 The heterotic string
- 24 Effective actions in ten dimensions
- 25 Compactification of string theory I. Tori and orbifolds
- 26 Compactification of string theory II. Calabi–Yau compactifications
- 27 Dynamics of string theory at weak coupling
- 28 Beyond weak coupling: non-perturbative string theory
- 29 Large and warped extra dimensions
- 30 The landscape: a challenge to the naturalness principle
- 31 Coda: Where are we heading?
- Part 4 Appendices
- References
- Index
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- Supersymmetry and String TheoryBeyond the Standard Model, pp. 372 - 396Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016