Glossary of string theory

This page is a glossary of terms in string theory, including related areas such as supergravity, supersymmetry, and high energy physics.
string theorysupergravitysupersymmetryhigh energy physicsphotonphotinosquarkFine-structure constantRegge theorystrong coupling constantEuler beta functionBeta functionDirac matrixEuler constantGamma functionKronecker delta functionDelta baryonLaplace operatorDedekind eta functionEta mesonTheta functionCabbibo angleWeinberg angleCosmological constantLambda baryonNeutrinoXi baryon3.14159...Rho mesonPauli matrixSigma baryonupper half planeUpsilon mesonPsi mesonOmega baryonD'Alembert operatoraxial vectoraction (physics)ADE classificationDynkin diagramsADHM constructionADM energyADM decompositionADM formalismanti-de Sitter spaceAdS/CFT correspondenceAsymptotically locally EuclideanALEPH experimentATLAS experimentstrong CP problembottom quarkBaryon numberbaryonbottom mesonBaryon acoustic oscillationBig BangnucleosynthesisgauginoBorn–Infeld actionBPS stateBogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield boundBRST quantizationBTZ black holeBatalin–Vilkovisky formalismspeed of lightChern classcharm quarkcharge symmetryCalabi–Yau manifoldKähler manifoldRicci curvatureCanonical anticommutation relationsCosmic background radiationCanonical commutation relationCCR and CAR algebrasCollider Detector at FermilabCold dark matterConseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléairecharginogauge bosonChern–Simons theoryChern–Simons formChirality (physics)Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrixKilling vectorConformal field theoryChan–Paton chargeCosmic microwave backgroundCompact Muon SolenoidCP symmetryCPT symmetryCPT theoremvector currentexterior derivativedown quarkDynkin diagramcharmed mesonDØ experimentD-braneDELPHI experimentDeutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronDiffeomorphismdiffeomorphism groupdilatinodilatonDirichlet boundary conditionsDeep inelastic scatteringdimensional regularizationdimensional reductionde Sitter spacedS/CFT correspondenceDual resonance modelString dualityS-dualityT-dualityU-dualitymysterious dualityDY processEuler's constantE6 (mathematics)E7 (mathematics)E8 (mathematics)Effective field theoryEnergy–momentum tensorcurvature formF4 (mathematics)neutral currentF-theoryFriedman–Robertson–Walkergenus of a Riemann surfacegravitational constantFermi coupling constantG2 (mathematics)G2 manifoldcoset constructiongeneral linear groupgluinostrong forcegoldstinoGoldstone bosonGeneral relativitygravitongravitinoMichael GreenGSO projectionGrand unified theoryelectroweak forceGreisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limitHamiltonianHiggs bosonHubble constantHaag–Łopuszański–Sohnius theoremColeman–Mandula theoremHagedorn temperatureHelicity (particle physics)Hadron Elektron Ring Anlageheterotic stringheterosisHiggsinoHolographic principleHeavy quark effective theoryHyperkähler manifoldHypermultipletIsospinIntergalactic mediumInflation (cosmology)InstantonK3 surfaceKodaira dimensionK-theoryK-theory (physics)Kac–Moody algebraloop algebraErich KählerKähler metricKähler potentialKalb–Ramond fieldKaluza–KleinKobayashi–Maskawa mechanismKZ equationLagrangianVirasoro algebraL3 experimentLagrangian (field theory)String theory landscapeLarge Electron–Positron Colliderleptonlarge hadron colliderLittle string theoryLeading orderLoop quantum gravityLoop quantum cosmologylightest supersymmetric particleMajorana fermionMajorana spinorMajorana–Weyl fermionMajorana–Weyl spinorMandelstam variablesMatrix string theoryMembrane (M-theory)Monte Carlo integrationMapping class groupconformal field theoriesMirror symmetry (string theory)Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrixMagnetic monopoleDirac monopoleWu–Yang monopole't Hooft–Polyakov monopoleSeiberg-Witten monopoleMonopole (mathematics)Montonen–Olive dualityminimal subtractionmodified minimal subtraction schememinimal standard modelminimal supersymmetric standard modelMinimal model of supergravityM-theoryMikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effectsupersymmetry algebrasuper Minkowski spaceextended supersymmetryN=2 superconformal algebranucleonprotonneutronNambu–Goto actionNeumann boundary conditionsNeutralinoAndré NeveuNeveu–Schwarz algebraRamond algebraNambu–Goldstone bosonNext-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard ModelNo-ghost theoremno-go theoremTaub–NUT vacuumorthogonal groupOPAL detectorOperator product expansionorbifoldLie superalgebraparity symmetryPseudoscalarpartially conserved axial vector currentParton distribution functionParticle Data GroupPontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrixPolyakov actionPeccei–Quinn theoryquantum chromodynamicssupersymmetric gauge theorySeiberg–Witten theoryDavid GrossJeffrey HarveyEmil MartinecRyan RohmProjective special linear groupBRST operatorQuantum electrodynamicsRamond sectorScalar curvatureRiemann curvaturePierre RamondRarita–Schwinger equationRarita–Schwinger fieldTullio ReggeRegge trajectoryfirst superstring revolutionsecond superstring revolutionD-branesRenormalization groupRNS formalismR-parityRamond–Ramond sectorstrange quarkMandelstam variablescattering matrixsupersymmetricSuperconformal field theoryJohn Henry SchwarzSeiberg dualityBPS statesSigma modelNon-linear sigma modelSpecial linear groupStanford Linear Accelerator CenterStanford Linear CollidersleptonStandard ModelsneutrinoSpecial orthogonal groupSymplectic groupSphaleronSpontaneous symmetry breakingStandard solar modelstring field theorySpecial unitary groupSuperfieldSupermultipletSuperpotentialsuperspacesuperstringtop quarktime symmetryTachyonTheory of everythingType I string theoryType II string theoryup quarkunitary groupvertex operatorvector supermultipletsVacuum expectation valueVeneziano amplitudeWitt algebraW-bosonW-algebraHermann WeylWeyl transformationWeyl spinorWeakly interacting massive particlewino (particle)Edward WittenWilkinson Microwave Anisotropy ProbeWZW modelYang–Baxter equationYang–MillsZ bosonextended supersymmetry algebraZEUS (particle detector)List of string theory topicsBecker, MelanieJohn H. SchwarzPaul H. FramptonPolchinski, JosephZwiebach, BartonWayback Machine