Branes, Brane Actions and Applications to Field Theory

Author: Popescu, Costin Radu

Year: 2001

Degree: Dissertation (Ph.D.)

Advisor: Schwarz, John H.

Committee Members: Schwarz, John H.; Politzer, Hugh David; Porter, Frank C.; Preskill, John P.

Option: Physics

DOI: 10.7907/qr6g-tp18

Abstract

This thesis describes the construction of supersymmetric world-volume actions for various kinds of extended objects that appear in string theory, the so-called p-branes, D-branes and M-branes. We also present an application of branes to computing the spectrum of a conformal field theory in the context of the AdS-CFT correspondence.

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