An introduction to the bosonic string
@inproceedings{Polchinski1998AnIT, title={An introduction to the bosonic string}, author={J. Polchinski}, year={1998} }
Foreword Preface Notation 1. A first look at strings 2. Conformal field theory 3. The Polyakov path integral 4. The string spectrum 5. The string S-matrix 6. Tree-level amplitudes 7. One-loop amplitudes 8. Toroidal compactification and T-duality 9. Higher order amplitudes Appendix A: a short course on path integrals References Glossary Index.