Introduction to String Field Theory, Lecture 2 of 4 | Barton Zwiebach

Barton Zwiebach, MIT KITP Jan 7, 2009 'Introduction to String Field Theory II' lecture given by Barton Zwiebach at the KITP Program: Fundamental Aspects of Superstring Theory. Lecture notes: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/strings09/zwiebach/pdf/Zwiebach_SuperStrings_KITP.pdf References for string field theory lectures: Three nice old short reviews: Is the String Field Big Enough ? B. Zwiebach. Fortschr.Phys.49 (2001) 387: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/81002110/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 String Field Theory. Leonardo Rastelli: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509129 String Field Theory. Wati Taylor: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605202 Open string field theory basics: Tachyon potentials, star products and universality. Rastelli and Zwiebach: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006240 For more recent developments: Analytic solution ... M. Schnabl: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511286 Comments on Schnabl's ..... Y. Okawa: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603159 A comprehensive recent review: Analytical Solutions of Open String Field Theory. Fuchs and Kroyter: http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4722 Video can also be found here: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu