References
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course, Christoph Chiaffrino. After providing him with the topic and few references,
Christoph has prepared all the tutorials and the corrections autonomously. His help
brought a lot to the course.
I am particularly obliged to all the students who have taken this course at LMU for
many interesting discussions and comments: Enrico Andriolo, Hrólfur Ásmundsson,
Daniel Bockisch, Fabrizio Cordonnier, Julian Freigang, Wilfried Kaase, Andriana
Makridou, Pouria Mazloumi, Daniel Panea and Martin Rojo.
I am also grateful to all the string theory community for many exchanges.
For discussions related to the topics of this book, I would like to thank more
particularly: Costas Bachas, Adel Bilal, Subhroneel Chakrabarti, Atish Dabholkar,
Benoit Douçot, Ted Erler, Dileep Jatkar, Carlo Maccaferri, Juan Maldacena, Yuji
Okawa, Sylvain Ribault, Raoul Santachiara, Martin Schnabl, Dimitri Skliros and
Jakub Vošmera. I have received a lot of feedback during the different stages of
writing this book, and I am obliged to all the colleagues who sent me feedback.
I am thankful to my colleagues at LMU for providing a warm and stimulating
environment, with special thanks to Livia Ferro for many discussions around coffee.
Moreover, the encouragements and advice from Oleg Andreev and Erik Plauschinn
have been strong incentives for publishing this book.
The editorial process at Springer has been very smooth. I would also like to thank
Christian Caron and Lisa Scalone for their help and efficiency during the publishing
process. I am also indebted to Stefan Theisen for having supported the publication
at Springer and for numerous comments and corrections on the draft.
Most part of this book was written at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU, Munich, Germany), where I was supported by a Carl Friedrich von Siemens
Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The final stage has been completed at the University of Turin (Italy).
My research is currently funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement no.
891169.
Finally, writing this book would have been more difficult without the continuous
and loving support from Corinne.
Boston, USA
Harold Erbin
November 2020
References
1. C. de Lacroix, H. Erbin, S.P. Kashyap, A. Sen, M. Verma, Closed superstring field theory and
its applications. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 32(28–29), 1730021 (2017)
2. T. Erler, Four lectures on closed string field theory. Phys. Rep. S03701573203001
32 (2020)
3. S.F. Moosavian, A. Sen, M. Verma, Superstring field theory with open and closed strings. J.
High Energy Phys. 2001, 183 (2020). arXiv:1907.10632
4. A. Sen, BV master action for heterotic and type II string field theories. J. High Energy Phys.
2016(2) (2016)
vii
course, Christoph Chiaffrino. After providing him with the topic and few references,
Christoph has prepared all the tutorials and the corrections autonomously. His help
brought a lot to the course.
I am particularly obliged to all the students who have taken this course at LMU for
many interesting discussions and comments: Enrico Andriolo, Hrólfur Ásmundsson,
Daniel Bockisch, Fabrizio Cordonnier, Julian Freigang, Wilfried Kaase, Andriana
Makridou, Pouria Mazloumi, Daniel Panea and Martin Rojo.
I am also grateful to all the string theory community for many exchanges.
For discussions related to the topics of this book, I would like to thank more
particularly: Costas Bachas, Adel Bilal, Subhroneel Chakrabarti, Atish Dabholkar,
Benoit Douçot, Ted Erler, Dileep Jatkar, Carlo Maccaferri, Juan Maldacena, Yuji
Okawa, Sylvain Ribault, Raoul Santachiara, Martin Schnabl, Dimitri Skliros and
Jakub Vošmera. I have received a lot of feedback during the different stages of
writing this book, and I am obliged to all the colleagues who sent me feedback.
I am thankful to my colleagues at LMU for providing a warm and stimulating
environment, with special thanks to Livia Ferro for many discussions around coffee.
Moreover, the encouragements and advice from Oleg Andreev and Erik Plauschinn
have been strong incentives for publishing this book.
The editorial process at Springer has been very smooth. I would also like to thank
Christian Caron and Lisa Scalone for their help and efficiency during the publishing
process. I am also indebted to Stefan Theisen for having supported the publication
at Springer and for numerous comments and corrections on the draft.
Most part of this book was written at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
(LMU, Munich, Germany), where I was supported by a Carl Friedrich von Siemens
Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The final stage has been completed at the University of Turin (Italy).
My research is currently funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement no.
891169.
Finally, writing this book would have been more difficult without the continuous
and loving support from Corinne.
Boston, USA
Harold Erbin
November 2020
References
1. C. de Lacroix, H. Erbin, S.P. Kashyap, A. Sen, M. Verma, Closed superstring field theory and
its applications. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 32(28–29), 1730021 (2017)
2. T. Erler, Four lectures on closed string field theory. Phys. Rep. S03701573203001
32 (2020)
3. S.F. Moosavian, A. Sen, M. Verma, Superstring field theory with open and closed strings. J.
High Energy Phys. 2001, 183 (2020). arXiv:1907.10632
4. A. Sen, BV master action for heterotic and type II string field theories. J. High Energy Phys.
2016(2) (2016)