Brane dynamics and gauge theory

A Giveon, D Kutasov - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1999 - APS
USING STANDARD SYSTE Page 1 Brane dynamics and gauge theory Amit Giveon Racah
Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel David Kutasov EFI and …

Superstring cosmology

JE Lidsey, D Wands, EJ Copeland - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
Aspects of superstring cosmology are reviewed with an emphasis on the cosmological
implications of duality symmetries in the theory. The string effective actions are summarized …

Lectures on the string landscape and the Swampland

NB Agmon, A Bedroya, MJ Kang, C Vafa - arxiv preprint arxiv:2212.06187, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide an overview of the string landscape and the Swampland program. Our review of
the string landscape covers the worldsheet and spacetime perspectives, including vacua …

Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions

P Hořava, E Witten - The World in Eleven Dimensions, 1999 - taylorfrancis.com
We propose that the ten-dimensional E 8× E 8 heterotic string is related to an eleven-
dimensional theory on the orbifold R10× S1/Z2 in the same way that the Type IIA string in ten …

[BOOK][B] String theory and M-theory: A modern introduction

K Becker, M Becker, JH Schwarz - 2006 - books.google.com
String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical
physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments …

[BOOK][B] Inflation and string theory

D Baumann, L McAllister - 2015 - books.google.com
The past two decades have seen transformative advances in cosmology and string theory.
Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed strong evidence for …

Bound states of strings and p-branes

E Witten - Nuclear Physics B, 1996 - Elsevier
The recent discovery of an explicit conformal field theory description of Type II p-branes
makes it possible to investigate the existence of bound states of such objects. In particular, it …

Dielectric-branes

RC Myers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
We extend the usual world-volume action for a Dp-brane to the case of N coincident Dp-
branes where the world-volume theory involves a U (N) gauge theory. The guiding principle …

Compactifications of F-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds (II)

DR Morrison, C Vafa - Nuclear Physics B, 1996 - Elsevier
We continue our study of compactifications of F-theory on Calabi-Yau threefolds. We gain
more insight into F-theory duals of heterotic strings and provide a recipe for building F-theory …

TASI lectures on D-branes

J Polchinski - arxiv preprint hep-th/9611050, 1996 - arxiv.org
This is an introduction to the properties of D-branes, topological defects in string theory on
which string endpoints can live. D-branes provide a simple description of various …