List of string theory topics

This is a list of string theory topics.

String theory

Strings
Nambu–Goto action
Polyakov action
Bosonic string theory
Superstring theory
Type I string
Type II string
Type IIA string theory
Type IIB string theory
Heterotic string
N=2 superstring
M-theory
Matrix theory
Introduction to M-theory
F-theory
String field theory
Matrix string theory
Nonlinear sigma model
Tachyon condensation
RNS formalism
String theory landscape
History of string theory
First superstring revolution
Second superstring revolution

String duality

T-duality
S-duality
U-duality
Montonen–Olive duality
Mysterious duality

Particles and fields

Graviton
Dilaton
Tachyon
Ramond–Ramond field
Kalb–Ramond field
Magnetic monopole

Branes

D-brane
S-brane
Black brane
Black holes
Black string
Brane cosmology
Quiver diagram
Hanany–Witten transition

Supersymmetry

Supergravity
Superspace
Lie superalgebra
Lie supergroup

Conformal field theory

Two-dimensional conformal field theory
Virasoro algebra
Mirror symmetry
Conformal anomaly
Conformal algebra
Superconformal algebra
Vertex operator algebra
Loop algebra
Kac–Moody algebra
Wess–Zumino–Witten model
Monstrous moonshine

Geometry

Kaluza–Klein theory
Compactification
Why 10 dimensions?
Kähler manifold
Ricci-flat manifold
Calabi–Yau manifold
Hyperkähler manifold
K3 surface
G2 manifold
Spin(7) manifold
Generalized complex manifold
Orbifold
Conifold
Orientifold
Moduli space
Hořava–Witten domain wall
K-theory (physics)
Twisted K-theory

Holography

Holographic principle
AdS/CFT correspondence

Gauge theory

Anomalies
Instantons
Chern–Simons form
Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound
Exceptional Lie groups
G2, F4, E6, E7, E8
ADE classification
Dirac string
P-form electrodynamics

People
See also: Category:String theorists

Mina Aganagić
Daniele Amati
Amir Amini
Husam Qutteina
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Paul S. Aspinwall
Michael Francis Atiyah
Tom Banks
David Berenstein
Jan de Boer
Raphael Bousso
Robert Brandenberger
Curtis Callan
Gerald Cleaver
Eugène Cremmer
Atish Dabholkar
Emilio Del Giudice
Paolo Di Vecchia
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Michael Dine
Jacques Distler
Louise Dolan
Michael Douglas
Michael Duff
Giorgi Dvali
Sergio Ferrara
Willy Fischler
Daniel Friedan
Rajesh Gopakumar
Sylvester James Gates
Michael Green
Brian Greene
David Gross
Steven Gubser
Sergei Gukov
Alan Guth
Jeffrey Harvey
Petr Hořava
Tasneem Zehra Husain
Gary Gibbons
Michio Kaku
Renata Kallosh
Theodor Kaluza
Anton Kapustin
Igor Klebanov
Oskar Klein
Juan Maldacena
Donald Marolf
Emil Martinec
Shiraz Minwalla
Gregory Moore
Lubos Motl
Sunil Mukhi
Robert Myers
K. S. Narain
Horatiu Nastase
Nikita Nekrasov
André Neveu
Dimitri Nanopoulos
Holger Bech Nielsen
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
David Olive
Hirosi Ooguri
Burt Ovrut
Joseph Polchinski
Alexander Polyakov
Arvind Rajaraman
Lisa Randall
Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi
Martin Rocek
John H. Schwarz
Nathan Seiberg
Ashoke Sen
Steve Shenker
Warren Siegel
Eva Silverstein
Matthias Staudacher
Paul Steinhardt
Andrew Strominger
Leonard Susskind
Charles Thorn
Paul Townsend
Sandip Trivedi
Neil Turok
Cumrun Vafa
Gabriele Veneziano
Erik Verlinde
Herman Verlinde
Edward Witten
Tamiaki Yoneya
Alexander Zamolodchikov
Alexei Zamolodchikov
Barton Zwiebach