An informal lectures at Hongo, 2018 autumn
Objective: The primary target audience was the 1st-year graduate
students at U. Tokyo Physics Major Course, who have finished reading
Polchinski's textbook until Chapter 11 (Het string). The purpose of this
quick course is to provide a broad-brush picture of how string compactification
is related to the description of elementary particle physics, so students
who will work in pheno or main stream string theory in their near future
can have a rough picture of how the other side is related to their field
of expertise; this course is not designed for students who will soon
start working on stringphenomenology.
Day 1: September 22 (Sat): 13:00--17:30, Hongo, Rm 913.
Section 1. Compactification in the Language of 10D SUGRA
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1.1 Bottom-up Motivations for Low-energy Supersymmetry
1.2 Special Holonomy Manifolds and Partial Supersymmetry Breaking
1.3 Low-energy Spectrum of Closed String
1.4 D-brane
Day 2: September 25 (Tue): 13:00--17:30, Hongo, Rm 913.
Section 2. From Pheno Perspectives (inc. Strind Duality)
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2.1 Doublet-triplet splitting problem in Supersymmetric GUT
2.2 String Duality and D=4 N=1 Landscape of Vacua
2.3 Axion in String Compactification
2.4 Flux Compactification and Complex Structure Moduli Stabilization
2.5 Inflation and Volume Moduli Stabilization
Section 3. Theoretical Miscellany
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3.1 Kahler (SUSY) vs non-Kahler (non-SUSY), and Higher-order Alpha' Correction
3.2 Non-geometric Phases
3.3 Fractional Branes
3.4 Topics Not Included in This Quick Course