Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of inserts
- Preface
- 1 Overview and overt ure
- 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-brane 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
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of inserts
- Preface
- 1 Overview and overt ure
- 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-brane 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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