Outline of string theory
String theory is an active research framework in particle physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. It is a contender for the theory of everything (TOE), a manner of describing the known fundamental forces and matter in a mathematically complete system. The theory has yet to make testable experimental predictions, leading some scientists to claim that it cannot be considered a part of science.
String theory
- Strings
- Nambu-Goto action
- Polyakov action
- Bosonic string theory
- Superstring theory
- N=2 superstring
- M-theory
- F-theory
- String field theory
- Matrix string theory
- Nonlinear sigma model
- Tachyon condensation
- RNS formalism
- String theory landscape
- History of string theory
Particles and fields
- D-brane
- S-brane
- Black brane
- Black holes
- Black string
- Brane cosmology
- Quiver diagram
- Hanany-Witten transition
Supersymmetry
- Virasoro algebra
- Mirror symmetry
- Conformal anomaly
- Conformal algebra
- Superconformal algebra
- Vertex operator algebra
- Loop algebra
- Kac-Moody algebra
- Wess-Zumino-Witten model
Geometry
- Kaluza-Klein theory
- Compactification
- Why 10 dimensions?
- Kähler manifold
- Ricci-flat manifold
- Generalized complex manifold
- Orbifold
- Conifold
- Orientifold
- Moduli space
- Horava-Witten domain wall
- K-theory (physics)
- Twisted K-theory
Holography
- Anomalies
- Instantons
- Chern-Simons form
- Bogomol'nyi Prasad Sommerfield bound
- Exceptional Lie groups
- ADE classification
- Dirac string
- P-form electrodynamics
String theorists
- See also Category:String theorists
- Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Michael Francis Atiyah
- Tom Banks
- David Berenstein
- Gerald Cleaver
- Robbert Dijkgraaf
- Jacques Distler
- Michael Douglas
- Michael Duff
- Sergio Ferrara
- Willy Fischler
- Daniel Friedan
- Rajesh Gopakumar
- Michael Green
- Brian Greene
- David Gross
- Steven Gubser
- Sergei Gukov
- Jeffrey Harvey
- Petr Horava
- Gary Gibbons
- Michio Kaku
- Renata Kallosh
- Theodor Kaluza
- Anton Kapustin
- Igor Klebanov
- Oskar Klein
- Hong Liu
- Juan Maldacena
- Donald Marolf
- Emil Martinecm
- Shiraz Minwalla
- Gregory Moore
- Lubos Motl
- Sunil Mukhi
- Robert Myers
- Asad Naqvi
- Horatiu Nastase
- Nikita Nekrasov
- André Neveu
- Dimitri Nanopoulos
- Holger Bech Nielsen
- Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
- Hirosi Ooguri
- 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
- Andrew Strominger
- Leonard Susskind
- Paul Townsend
- Sandip Trivedi
- Cumrun Vafa
- Gabriele Veneziano
- Erik Verlinde
- Herman Verlinde
- Edward Witten
- Tamiaki Yoneya
- Alexander Zamolodchikov
- Alexei Zamolodchikov
- Barton Zwiebach