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Barton Zwiebach, MIT
KITP
Jan 6, 2009

'Introduction to String Field Theory I' 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: www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/81002110/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
String Field Theory. Leonardo Rastelli: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509129
String Field Theory. Wati Taylor: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605202
Open string field theory basics: Tachyon potentials, star products and universality. Rastelli and Zwiebach: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0006240
For more recent developments: Analytic solution ... M. Schnabl: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511286
Comments on Schnabl's ..... Y. Okawa: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603159
A comprehensive recent review: Analytical Solutions of Open String Field Theory. Fuchs and Kroyter: arxiv.org/abs/0807.4722

Video can also be found here: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu