Branes, Charge and Intersections
Abstract
This is a brief summary of lectures given at the Fourth Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics. The lectures gave an introduction to branes in eleven-dimensional supergravity and in type IIA supergravities in ten-dimensions. Charge conservation and the role of the so-called `Chern-Simons terms' were emphasized. Known exact solutions were discussed and used to provide insight into the question `Why don't fundamental strings fall off of D-branes,' which is often asked by relativists. The following is a brief overview of the lectures with an associated guide to the literature.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0105115,
title = {Branes, Charge and Intersections},
author = {Donald Marolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0105115},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, no figures, latex. This brief summary of lectures given at the Fourth Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics was written for the associated proceedings