String Theory Review for Beginner Graduate Students

[Casco]

Hi, I've been looking for a string theory review for a beginner graduate student. However, there is a vast number of reviews so it's easy to get lost. Does anyone know about a review article or any kind of material to begin with String Theory?

Thanks.

 

[ChrisVer]

Yes...
B. Zwiebach:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17360.A_First_Course_in_String_Theory

E. Kiritsis:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8456.html

J.Polchinski (2 Vollumes):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521633036/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521633044/?tag=pfamazon01-20

There's also the Green & Schwarz & Wittens' 2 vollumes:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521357527/?tag=pfamazon01-20

And finally a more advanced is the:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521860695/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Also there are some reviews which I had as recommended for the grad lecture on strings for WS:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0110055v3.pdf

http://srv2.fis.puc.cl/~mbanados/Cursos/Cuerdas/LustTheisen .pdf

and:
H.P. Nilles, Supersymmetry and phenomenology (Phys. Reps. 110 C (1984) 1)

 

[haushofer]

Zwiebach is great for a first exposure. For me the best way to learn it a bit more advanced was Green,Schwartz,Witten (Volume 1) combined with the notes of Tong. I've never understood why people like Polchinski or Becker2Schwarz as introductions, to be honest.

A beautiful first exposure to SUSY is the notes of Lambert. To understand SUGRA a bit more, the notes of Samtleben are very pedagogic. But GSW+Tong should do the trick also :P

 

[Demystifier]

After Zwiebach, another elementary easy book on string theory is Szabo:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1860944272/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Demystifier]

combined with the notes of Tong.

Of topic: Tong has also written excellent notes on many other topics in physics. For example, I have learned a lot about Kinetic Theory from one of his notes.

 

[haushofer]

I also liked this overview,

http://www.aei.mpg.de/~theisen/LMT.pdf

 

[haushofer]

Of topic: Tong has also written excellent notes on many other topics in physics. For example, I have learned a lot about Kinetic Theory from one of his notes.

Yes. I'm still waiting for his superstring notes, and I'd propably buy the book if it would come out.

 

[Demystifier]

Yes. I'm still waiting for his superstring notes, and I'd propably buy the book if it would come out.

All lectures by Tong are available freely:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/teaching.html