Template:String theory topics

v t e String theory
Background	Strings History of string theory First superstring revolution Second superstring revolution String theory landscape
Theory	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 F-theory String field theory Matrix string theory Nonlinear sigma model Tachyon condensation RNS formalism
Concepts	Template:Navbox subgroup
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
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
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
Supersymmetry	Supergravity Superspace Lie superalgebra Lie supergroup
Holography	Holographic principle AdS/CFT correspondence
M-theory	Matrix theory Introduction to M-theory
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 Hořava 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 K. S. Narain 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