This is a list of string theory topics.

String theoryString 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 dualityString 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

Membrane (M-theory)Branes

• D-brane

• S-brane

• Black brane

• Black holes

• Black string

• Brane cosmology

• Quiver diagram

• Hanany–Witten transition

SupersymmetrySupersymmetry

• Supergravity

• Superspace

• Lie superalgebra

• Lie supergroup

Conformal field theoryConformal 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

HolographyHolography

• Holographic principle

• AdS/CFT correspondence

Gauge theoryGauge 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

See also

• Glossary of string theory