Strings and D-branes in holographic backgrounds
Abstract
We review recent progress in the study of non-rational (boundary) conformal field theories and their applications to describe exact holographic backgrounds in superstring theory. We focus mainly on the example of the supersymmetric coset SL(2,R)/U(1), corresponding to the two-dimensional black hole, and its dual N=2 Liouville. In particular we discuss the modular properties of their characters, their partition function as well as the exact boundary states for their various D-branes. Then these results are used to construct the corresponding quantities in the CFT of the NS5-brane background, with applications to Little String Theories.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0502101,
title = {Strings and D-branes in holographic backgrounds},
author = {Dan Israel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0502101},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, one figure; contribution to the proceedings of RTN Workshop, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 5-10 September 2004