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D-brane Engineering and the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Alberto Zaffaroni - Università di Milano Bicocca

 
  The course will focus on the strong relation between D-brane in string theory and the non-abelian gauge theories.
  The plan of the course is (time permitting):
 
    PART I - D-branes
  • Introduction to D-branes in type II strings
  • Engeenering of non-abelian gauge theories on D-branes
  • D-branes as probes
  • branes and string dualities
    1. PART II - the AdS/CFT correspondence
  • N=4 SYM and the conformal case
  • the non conformal case
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      Lecture notes (preliminary version): Dbranes 1, 2, 3, 4; AdS/CFT 1, 2