D branes

Books

• D-Branes by Clifford Johnson (CUP, 2003)
• String Theory by Joe Polchinski (two volumes, CUP, 1998): There are corrections listed on the Big Book of String homepage on Polchinski's homepage. Some of these corrections were made to the reprinting in 2000.
  • Volume 1: An Introduction to the Bosonic String
  • Volume 2: Superstring Theory and Beyond

Reviews

• Lectures on D-branes by Constantin P. Bachas (hep-th/9806199, abs, ps, pdf, 61 pages, 8 figures)
• D-Brane Primer by Clifford V. Johnson (hep-th/0007170, abs, ps, pdf, 222 pages)
• TASI Lectures on D-Branes by Joseph Polchinski (hep-th/9611050, abs, ps, pdf, 63 pages, 13 figures)
• D branes in string theory, I by Paolo Di Vecchia, Antonella Liccardo (hep-th/9912161, abs, ps, pdf, 58 pages)
• D branes in string theory, II by Paolo Di Vecchia, Antonella Liccardo (hep-th/9912275, abs, ps, pdf, 43 pages)
• Gauge Theories from D Branes by Paolo Di Vecchia, Antonella Liccardo (hep-th/0307104, abs, ps, pdf, 46 pages): A condensed summary of the above two papers.
• Nonabelian Phenomena on D-branes by (hep-th/0303072, abs, ps, pdf, Robert C. Myers )
• Scattering of Strings from D-branes by Akikazu Hashimoto, Igor Klebanov (hep-th/9611214, abs, ps, pdf, 16 pages, 4 figures)
• Etudes on D-Branes by Clifford V. Johnson (hep-th/9812196, abs, ps, pdf, 56 pages, 12 figures)
• Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory by A. Giveon, D. Kutasov (hep-th/9802067, abs, ps, pdf, 291 pages, 52 figures)
• Worldvolume Dynamics of Branes by J. M. Camino (hep-th/0210249, abs, ps, pdf, 196 pages)
• On Algebraic Singularities, Finite Graphs and D-Brane Gauge Theories: A String Theoretic Perspective by Yang-Hui He (hep-th/0209230, abs, ps, pdf, 513 pages, 71 figures)
• D-branes from conformal field theory by Matthias R Gaberdiel (hep-th/0201113, abs, ps, pdf, 19 pages, 4 figures)
• A Brief History of the Stringy Instanton by Nick Dorey, Timothy J. Hollowood, Valentin V. Khoze (hep-th/0010015, abs, ps, pdf, 17 pages)
• Introduction to D-branes by Larus Thorlacius (hep-th/9708078, abs, ps, pdf, 13 pages, 4 figures)
• (Half) a Lecture on D-branes by C. Bachas (hep-th/9701019, abs, ps, pdf, 20 pages)
• Superstring Dualities, Dirichlet Branes and the Small Scale Structure of Space by Michael R. Douglas (hep-th/9610041, abs, ps, pdf, 29 pages)
• Introduction to D-Branes by Clifford V. Johnson (hep-th/9606196, abs, ps, pdf, 6 pages, 6 figures)
• Notes on D-Branes by Joseph Polchinski, Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Clifford V. Johnson (hep-th/9602052, abs, ps, pdf, 45 pages)
• D-branes and boundary states in closed string theories by Ben Craps (hep-th/0004198, abs, ps, pdf, 210 pages, 24 figures

Papers

• Dirichlet-Branes and Ramond-Ramond Charges by Joseph Polchinski (hep-th/9510017, abs, ps, pdf)