List of string theory topics

This is a list of string theory topics.

String theory

 * Strings
 * Nambu–Goto action
 * Polyakov action
 * Bosonic string theory
 * Superstring theory
 * Type I string
 * Type II string
 * Type IIA string theory
 * Type IIB string theory
 * Heterotic string
 * N=2 superstring
 * M-theory
 * Matrix theory
 * Introduction to M-theory
 * F-theory
 * String field theory
 * Matrix string theory
 * Nonlinear sigma model
 * Tachyon condensation
 * RNS formalism
 * String theory landscape
 * History of string theory
 * First superstring revolution
 * Second superstring revolution

String duality

 * T-duality
 * S-duality
 * U-duality
 * Montonen–Olive duality
 * Mysterious duality

Particles and fields

 * Graviton
 * Dilaton
 * Tachyon
 * Ramond–Ramond field
 * Kalb–Ramond field
 * Magnetic monopole

Branes

 * D-brane
 * S-brane
 * Black brane
 * Black holes
 * Black string
 * Brane cosmology
 * Quiver diagram
 * Hanany–Witten transition

Supersymmetry

 * Supergravity
 * Superspace
 * Lie superalgebra
 * Lie supergroup

Conformal field theory

 * Two-dimensional conformal field theory
 * Virasoro algebra
 * Mirror symmetry
 * Conformal anomaly
 * Conformal algebra
 * Superconformal algebra
 * Vertex operator algebra
 * Loop algebra
 * Kac–Moody algebra
 * Wess–Zumino–Witten model
 * Monstrous moonshine

Geometry

 * Kaluza–Klein theory
 * Compactification
 * Why 10 dimensions?
 * Kähler manifold
 * Ricci-flat manifold
 * Calabi–Yau manifold
 * Hyperkähler manifold
 * K3 surface
 * G2 manifold
 * Spin(7) manifold
 * Generalized complex manifold
 * Orbifold
 * Conifold
 * Orientifold
 * Moduli space
 * Hořava–Witten domain wall
 * K-theory (physics)
 * Twisted K-theory

Holography

 * Holographic principle
 * AdS/CFT correspondence

Gauge theory

 * Anomalies
 * Instantons
 * Chern–Simons form
 * Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound
 * Exceptional Lie groups
 * G2, F4, E6, E7, E8
 * ADE classification
 * Dirac string
 * P-form electrodynamics

People

 * Mina Aganagić
 * Daniele Amati
 * Amir Amini
 * Husam Qutteina
 * Nima Arkani-Hamed
 * Paul S. Aspinwall
 * Michael Francis Atiyah
 * Tom Banks
 * David Berenstein
 * Jan de Boer
 * Raphael Bousso
 * Robert Brandenberger
 * Curtis Callan
 * Eugène Cremmer
 * Atish Dabholkar
 * Emilio Del Giudice
 * Paolo Di Vecchia
 * Robbert Dijkgraaf
 * Michael Dine
 * Jacques Distler
 * Louise Dolan
 * Michael Douglas
 * Michael Duff
 * Giorgi Dvali
 * Sergio Ferrara
 * Willy Fischler
 * Daniel Friedan
 * Rajesh Gopakumar
 * Sylvester James Gates
 * Michael Green
 * Brian Greene
 * David Gross
 * Steven Gubser
 * Sergei Gukov
 * Alan Guth
 * Jeffrey Harvey
 * Petr Hořava
 * Gary Horowitz
 * Tasneem Zehra Husain
 * Gary Gibbons
 * Clifford V. Johnson
 * Michio Kaku
 * Renata Kallosh
 * Theodor Kaluza
 * Anton Kapustin
 * Igor Klebanov
 * Oskar Klein
 * Juan Martín Maldacena
 * Donald Marolf
 * Emil Martinec
 * Shiraz Minwalla
 * Gregory Moore
 * Luboš Motl
 * Sunil Mukhi
 * Robert Myers
 * K. S. Narain
 * Horațiu Năstase
 * Nikita Nekrasov
 * André Neveu
 * Dimitri Nanopoulos
 * Holger Bech Nielsen
 * Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
 * David Olive
 * Hirosi Ooguri
 * Burt Ovrut
 * Joseph Polchinski
 * Alexander Polyakov
 * Arvind Rajaraman
 * Lisa Randall
 * Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi
 * Martin Rocek
 * John H. Schwarz
 * Nathan Seiberg
 * Ashoke Sen
 * Suvankar Dutta
 * Samson Shatashvili
 * Steve Shenker
 * Warren Siegel
 * Eva Silverstein
 * Matthias Staudacher
 * Paul Steinhardt
 * Andrew Strominger
 * Leonard Susskind
 * Charles Thorn
 * Paul Townsend
 * Sandip Trivedi
 * Neil Turok
 * Cumrun Vafa
 * Gabriele Veneziano
 * Erik Verlinde
 * Herman Verlinde
 * Edward Witten
 * Tamiaki Yoneya
 * Alexander Zamolodchikov
 * Alexei Zamolodchikov
 * Barton Zwiebach