Lectures on Branes in Curved Backgrounds
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
These lectures provide an introduction to the microscopic description of branes in curved backgrounds. After a brief reminder of the flat space theory, the basic principles and techniques of (rational) boundary conformal field theory are presented in the second lecture. The general formalism is then illustrated through a detailed discussion of branes on compact group manifolds. In the final lecture, many more recent developments are reviewed, including some results for non-compact target spaces.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209241,
title = {Lectures on Branes in Curved Backgrounds},
author = {Volker Schomerus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209241},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
109 pages, 11 figures, Lectures presented at the third RTN school on `The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions', Utrecht, January 2002