Non BPS D-brane systems

December 18 - December 21

Institut Henri Poincare

John Schwarz (CALTECH)

The content of IHP Lecture notes 48 can be found in

TASI LECTURES ON NON-BPS D-BRANE SYSTEMS by J. Schwarz

hep-th/9908144

Lecture 1

• Type II RR fields and BPS D-branes

• T duality for D-branes

• Type I and type I' theories

• Unstable D-brane + anti-D-brane systems

Lecture 2

• Non-BPS D0-brane of type I

• K-theory classification of type II D-brane charges

• K-theory classification of type I D-brane charges

• Type I' interpretation

Lecture 3

• Vacua with 16 unbroken supersymmetries in 9d and 8d

• Additional remarks about type I non-BPS D-branes

• Tachyon condensation in string field theory

• Solitons of noncommutative field theory and their application