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The Boundary State Description of D-Branes

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Recent Developments in General Relativity

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We review the boundary state description of the Dirichlet branes and show how to obtain the Dirac-Born-Infeld action and the classical supergravity D-brane solutions using the closed string operator formalism.

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  1. A. Lerda
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  1. Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Matematica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

    B. Casciaro  & D. Fortunato  & 

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    M. Francaviglia

  3. Dipartimento Interuniversitario, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

    A. Masiello

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Lerda, A. (2000). The Boundary State Description of D-Branes. In: Casciaro, B., Fortunato, D., Francaviglia, M., Masiello, A. (eds) Recent Developments in General Relativity. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2113-6_12

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