Intersecting branes in field theories

December 15 - December 20

Institut Henri Poincare

Paul Townsend (DAMTP, Cambridge/IHP)

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Lecture 1 M-THEORY AND M-BRANES

• Intersecting M-branes

• Interpretation as worldvolume branes

• Examples: calibrations, BIons

Lecture 2 DOMAIN WALLS IN MQCD

• Effective WZ field theory

• Intersecting WZ domain walls

• Exact triple junction solution

• Relation to D=4 superalgebra

• Geometry of N=1 Susy

Lecture 3 MASSIVE N=2 D=4 SIGMA MODELS

• Static vs stationary solitons

• The kink-lump as a D=5 D-brane BIon.

• Toric hyper-Kahler manifolds and exact solutions for intersecting walls.

• Multi domain wall dynamics