D-branes

December 4 - December 11

Institut Henri Poincare

Costas Bachas (LPTENS))

The content of the lectures can be found in

LECTURES ON D-BRANES by C. Bachas

hep-th/9806199

FLUX STABILIZATION OF D-BRANES by C. Bachas, M. Douglas and C. Schweigert

hep-th/0003037

Lecture 1 INTRODUCTION TO D-BRANES

• Ramond-Ramond fields

• Open strings; definition of D-branes

• Tension and charge

Lecture 2 DUALITIES

• T-duality

• Type IIA/M-theory

• Type IIB; Heterotic/Type I

Lecture 3 DYNAMICS

• Effective action: DBI and WZ terms

• Size of D-particles

• Matrix model

Lecture 4 BLACK HOLES

• D1/D5 system: entropy counting

• D-branes in near-horizon geometries