8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 12: String Spectrum and Graviton

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu first discusses closed string spectrum obtained from light-cone quantization. The essential point is that among closed string excitation there is a massless spin-2 particle, which can be interpreted as the graviton. He then briefly discusses string interactions which confirms the interpretation of the graviton.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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