Pietro A. Grassi - Università del Piemonte Orientale
The plan of the course is (time permitting):
Definition of sigma models in 2d and in 4d.
General sigma models and quantization - background field method.
Sigma models on group manifolds.
Sigma models on coset manifolds and WZW models.
Adding fermionic coordinates.
Kappa invariant sigma models.
AdS sigma models and Ramond-Ramond fields.
Bibliography:
P. Di Francesco, P. Mathieu and D. Senechal, Conformal Field Theory, Springer VerlagN.Berkovits, ICTP lectures on covariant quantization of the superstring, [arXiv:hep-th/0209059]S.V. Ketov, Quantum non-linear sigma models, Springer Verlag
