PHYSICS 237A
String Theory
Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Historical introduction to string theory, including classical bosonic string and its symmetries, light cone quantization, covariant quantization, conformal field theory, Polyakov path integral, tree level amplitudes, and loop amplitudes.
S/U grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 221A, 221B, 221C, 230A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSICS 237A
- PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 221BQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 221CQuantum Mechanics
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PHYSICS 237A
- PHYSICS 237BString Theory
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.