8.821 | Fall 2008 | Graduate

String Theory

Lecture Notes

Lecture 04

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Lecture notes on hindsight derivation, the Weinberg-Witten theorem, the graviton, quantum field theory, the holographic principle, the renormalization group, supersymmetry (SUSY), conformal invariance, the “Cartan-Weyl” method, and counting of degrees of freedom.

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