D-Branes Reading List
composed by Andy O'Bannon
Textbooks:
Polchinski: chapter 13
Johnson: chapters 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16
Kiritsis: chapter 8
Becker, Becker, Schwarz: chapters 6, 8
Reviews:
Polchinski, Chaudhuri, Johnson
the standard review
Notes on D-Branes
Polchinski
TASI lectures, mostly the same as the above
TASI Lectures on D-Branes
Townsend
lectures on M-theory
Four Lectures on M-theory
Taylor
emphasis on the low-energy gauge theory description
Lectures on D-branes, Gauge Theory and M(atrices)
Giveon and Kutasov
tools for building gauge theories from D-branes
Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory
Bachas
emphasis on D-brane scattering, dualities, and worldvolume actions
Lectures on D-branes
Tseytlin
emphasis on properties of the DBI action
Born-Infeld action, supersymmetry and string theory
Berman
branes in M-theory (pre-ABJM)
M-theory branes and their interactions
Original papers:
Fradkin and Tseytlin
evidence for DBI action from open string worldsheet
Phys.Lett. B163 (1985) 123
Abouelsaood, Callan, Nappi, Yost
evidence for DBI action from open string worldsheet
Nucl.Phys. B280 (1987) 599
Burgess
open string tachyon for constant electric field
Nucl.Phys. B294 (1987) 427
Leigh
DBI action from open string worldsheet
Mod.Phys.Lett. A4 (1989) 2767
Horowitz and Strominger
branes as solitons of SUGRA (black p-branes)
Nucl.Phys. B360 (1991) 197-209
Bachas and Porrati
Schwinger mechanism for strings ending on branes
Pair Creation of Open Strings in an Electric Field
Polchinski
the breakthrough paper
Dirichlet-Branes and Ramond-Ramond Charges
Witten
bound states of D-branes
Bound States Of Strings And p-Branes
Horava-Witten I
Heterotic and Type I String Dynamics from Eleven Dimensions
Bachas
D-brane scattering
D-brane dynamics
Strominger
classification of branes ending on branes
Open P-Branes
Townsend
D-branes from M-branes
D-branes from M-branes
Douglas
branes “dissolving into” branes
Branes within Branes
Vafa
F-theory, a.k.a. type IIB with D7-branes
Evidence for F-Theory
Tseytlin
self-duality of D3-branes
Self-duality of Born-Infeld action and Dirichlet 3-brane of type IIB superstring theory
Horava-Witten II
“end-of-the-world” branes
Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity on a Manifold with Boundary
Tseytlin
harmonic superpositions of M-branes
Harmonic superpositions of M-branes
Green, Harvey, Moore
anomaly inflow for D-branes
I-Brane Inflow and Anomalous Couplings on D-Branes
Berkooz, Douglas, Leigh
branes intersecting at angles
Branes Intersecting at Angles
Douglas, Kabat, Pouliot, Shenker
D-branes can probe short-distance physics
D-branes and Short Distances in String Theory
Bergshoeff and Townsend
supersymmetric actions for D-branes
Super D-branes
Hanany-Witten
2+1d gauge theories from D3/D5 intersections
Type IIB Superstrings, BPS Monopoles, And Three-Dimensional Gauge Dynamics
Callan and Maldacena
DBI solutions describing branes ending on branes
Brane Dynamics From the Born-Infeld Action
Gibbons
BIons and other DBI solutions
Born-Infeld particles and Dirichlet p-branes
Myers
the “Myers effect”: branes “puffing up” into higher-dimensional branes
Dielectric-Branes
Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis, Maldacena (ABJM)
worldvolume theory of M2-branes
N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals