BPS Branes in Supergravity

November 27 & 29, 2000

Institut Henri Poincare

Kellogg Stelle (Imperial College/IHP)

Presently only copies of manuscript notes exist as IHP Lecture notes 44

Lecture 1 INTRODUCTION & SUPERGRAVITY BACKGROUND

• p-branes as solitons

• Maximal supergravity and its charges

• Kaluza-Klein reductions

Lecture 2 BASIC BRANES

• Single-charge truncations

• The p-brane ansatz and solutions

• Basic branes in D=11

• Black branes

Lecture 3 CHARGES AND BPS CONDITIONS

• Energy density and p-form charges

• Supersymmetry preservation

• Dirac quantization conditions

• Brane charge lattices

Lecture 4 BRANE SOURCES AND TEST BRANES

• Brane source actions

• Intersecting branes

• Test branes and no-force conditions