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D-branes /
A self-contained and pedagogical introduction to D-branes, their theory and applications. Covering the basics as well as advanced applications, this book will be suitable as a textbook for graduate courses and also a valuable reference for researchers. There is no other book devoted to the technolog...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Overview and overture
- Relativistic strings
- A closer look at the world-sheet
- Strings on circles and T-duality
- Background fields and world-volume actions
- D-branes tension and boundary states
- Supersymmetric strings
- Supersymmetric strings and T-duality
- World-volume curvature couplings
- The geometry of D-branes
- Multiple D-branes and bound states
- Strong coupling and string duality
- D-branes and geometry I
- K3 orientifolds and compactification
- D-branes and geometry II
- Towards M- and F-theory
- D-branes and black holes
- D-branes, gravity and gauge theory
- The holographic renormalisation group
- Taking stock.