Marcus' mini course on aspects of string phenomenology at
Cornell
Fall 2008
Each lecture will be about 1.5 hours, with a short break.
| Date | Time |
Notes |
| Fri, Sep 19 |
1pm |
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| Tue, Sep 23 |
6pm |
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| Thu, Sep 25 |
5pm |
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| Tue, Sep 30 |
5:30pm |
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| Thu, Oct 2 |
No class |
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| Tue, Oct 7 |
5:30pm |
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| Thu, Oct 9 |
5:30pm |
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Homework Set 1
PDF.
Handed out: Sep 19. Due: Fri, Sep 26.
Homework Set 2
PDF.
Handed out: Sep 25. Hand in: Oct 9.
Books
- Polchinski's string book, especially Ch. 7 and 12.
- T. Apostol, "Modular functions and Dirichlet series in number theory",
2nd
ed., especially Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, Prob. 6.13, 6.15
Papers
(note: this is not comprehensive at all,
just a few papers we discussed in class and a few more)
D-brane model building
Effective action: f, K, and masses
- Lust, Stieberger,
Gauge Threshold Corrections in Intersecting Brane World Models
(1-loop corrections to f)
- Akerblom et al, Thresholds
for
Intersecting D-branes Revisited (1-loop corrections to f, done
differently)
- M.B., Haack, Körs,
String Loop Corrections to
Kahler Potentials in Orientifolds (1-loop corrections to K, no angles)
- Billo et al,
Instanton effects in N=1 brane models and the Kahler metric of twisted
matter (tree-level K with angles)
- Antoniadis et al, Anomalous U(1)s in Type
I superstring vacua (1-loop gauge boson masses)
Advanced topics: beyond tori, adding fluxes
More on phenomenology
Useful math
Marcus' homepage