This book provides a self-contained introduction to D-branes, a key theoretical tool in understanding strongly coupled superstring theory and M-theory. A textbook for graduate courses on modern string theory and an indispensable reference for seasoned practitioners, this 2003 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.
This book provides a self-contained introduction to D-branes, a key theoretical tool in understanding strongly coupled superstring theory and M-theory. A textbook for graduate courses on modern string theory and an indispensable reference for seasoned practitioners, this 2003 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Clifford V. Johnson obtained his BSc in physics at Imperial College, University of London, and his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Southampton. He won a 1992 Lindeman Fellowship and a 1992 SERC NATO Fellowship, and became a member of the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He then spent a year teaching and undertaking research at the Physics Department of Princeton University, and went on to hold a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara. He was then Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky and Reader in Theoretical Physics at Durham University. He is currently a professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Southern California.
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List of inserts Preface 1. Overview and overture 2. Relativistic strings 3. A closer look at the world-sheet 4. Strings on circles and T-duality 5. Background fields and world-volume actions 6. D-branes tension and boundary states 7. Supersymmetric strings 8. Supersymmetric strings and T-duality 9. World-volume curvature couplings 10. The geometry of D-branes 11. Multiple D-branes and bound states 12. Strong coupling and string duality 13. D-branes and geometry I 14. K3 orientifolds and compactification 15. D-branes and geometry II 16. Towards M- and F-theory 17. D-branes and black holes 18. D-branes, gravity and gauge theory 19. The holographic renormalisation group 20. Taking stock References Index.
List of inserts Preface 1. Overview and overture 2. Relativistic strings 3. A closer look at the world-sheet 4. Strings on circles and T-duality 5. Background fields and world-volume actions 6. D-branes tension and boundary states 7. Supersymmetric strings 8. Supersymmetric strings and T-duality 9. World-volume curvature couplings 10. The geometry of D-branes 11. Multiple D-branes and bound states 12. Strong coupling and string duality 13. D-branes and geometry I 14. K3 orientifolds and compactification 15. D-branes and geometry II 16. Towards M- and F-theory 17. D-branes and black holes 18. D-branes, gravity and gauge theory 19. The holographic renormalisation group 20. Taking stock References Index.
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