bosonic string

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Contents 1 Classical treatment 2 Quantization 3 Compactification 4 Duality 5 Thermodynamics

[edit] Classical treatment

• Nambu-Goto action
• Polyakov action
• Conformal gauge
  • Solutions
• Lightcone gauge

[edit] Quantization

• Virasoro algebra
• Canonical quantization
• Path integral quantization
  • Gauge fixing
  • Weyl anomaly
• Lightcone quantization

[edit] Compactification

• Toroidal compactification

[edit] Duality

• T-duality

[edit] Thermodynamics