List of string theory topics

String theory

• strings
• * open string
• * closed string
• * oriented string
• * world sheet
• nonlinear sigma model
• bosonic string theory
• * Nambu-Goto action
• * Polyakov action
• superstring theory
• * type I string
• * type II string
• **type IIA string theory
• **type IIB string theory
• * heterotic string
• M-theory
• * matrix theory
• * M-theory (simplified explanation)
• F-theory
• string field theory
• matrix string theory
• first superstring revolution
• second superstring revolution
• tachyon condensation
• particles
• *graviton
• *dilaton
• *tachyon

  String dualities

• T-duality
• S-duality
• U-duality
• Mysterious duality

  Branes

• p-brane
• D-brane
• S-branes
• quiver diagram
• brane cosmology

  Supersymmetry

• supergravity
• superspace
• Lie superalgebra
• supergroup

  Conformal field theory

• Virasoro algebra
• mirror symmetry

  Geometry

• Kaluza-Klein theory
• *compact dimension
• * Why 10 dimensions?
• Calabi-Yau manifold
• Kähler manifold
• hyperKähler manifold
• *K3 surface
• G₂ manifold
• orbifold
• conifold
• orientifold
• moduli

  Holography

• holographic principle
• AdS/CFT
• black holes

  Gauge theory

• Chern-Simons form
• anomalies
• instantons
• Bogomol'nyi Prasad Sommerfield bound
• G₂, F₄, E₆, E₇, E₈
• ADE classification
• Dirac string

  People

• Michael Francis Atiyah
• Tom Banks
• Robbert Dijkgraaf
• Jacques Distler
• Michael Douglas
• Willy Fischler
• Michael Green
• Brian Greene
• David Gross
• Jeffrey Harvey
• Petr Horava
• Michio Kaku
• Juan Maldacena
• Shiraz Minwalla
• Lubos Motl
• Joseph Polchinski
• Arvind Rajaraman
• John Schwarz
• Nathan Seiberg
• Steve Shenker
• Ashoke Sen
• Andrew Strominger
• Leonard Susskind
• Cumrun Vafa
• Gabriele Veneziano
• Erik Verlinde
• Herman Verlinde
• Edward Witten
• Nima Arkani-Hamed