D-branes
By: Clifford V. Johnson
Series: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: D-branes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 510-528) and index
Table of contents: title: Overview and overture; title: Relativistic strings; title: A closer look at the world-sheet; title: Strings on circles and T-duality; title: Background fields and world-volume actions; title: D-branes tension and boundary states; title: Supersymmetric strings; title: Supersymmetric strings and T-duality; title: World-volume curvature couplings; title: The geometry of D-branes; title: Multiple D-branes and bound states; title: Strong coupling and string duality; title: D-branes and geometry I; title: K3 orientifolds and compactification; title: D-branes and geometry II; title: Towards M- and F-theory; title: D-branes and black holes; title: D-branes, gravity and gauge theory; title: The holographic renormalisation group; title: Taking stock