Contents
Part I. Basics:
1. A brief introduction;
2. Special relativity and extra dimensions;
3. Electromagnetism and gravitation;
4. Non-relativistic strings;
5. The relativistic point particle;
6. Relativistic strings;
7. String parameterization and motion;
8. World-sheet currents;
9. Light-cone relativistic strings;
10. Light-cone fields and particles;
11. Relativistic quantum particles;
12. Quantum open strings;
13. Quantum closed strings;
Part II. Developments:
14. D-branes and gauge fields;
15. String charge, electric charge, and particle physics;
16. String thermodynamics and black holes;
17. T-duality of closed strings;
18. T-duality of open strings;
19. Electromagnetic fields on D-branes;
20. Nonlinear electrodynamics;
21. Covariant string quantization;
22. Interactions and Riemann surfaces;
23. Loop amplitudes in string theory;
References;
Index.
