| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
D-branes/ Clifford V. Johnson. |
| Author: |
Johnson, Clifford V. |
| Published: |
Cambridge, U.K. ;Cambridge University Press, : 2003., |
| Description: |
xxiii, 548 p. :ill. ;26 cm. |
| Series: |
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
D-branes. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120327An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0511064020 (electronic bk.) |