8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 13: Physics of D-branes, Part I

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu introduces the definition of D-branes, finds spectrum of open strings on D-branes, which can be interpreted as excitations of D-branes. Among excitations are massless vector fields whose low energy effective actions are given by a U(1) gauge theory.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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