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In these lectures we present a detailed description of the origin and of the construction of the boundary state that is now widely used for studying the properties of D branes.
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Di Vecchia, P., Liccardo, A. (2000). D Branes in String Theory, I. In: Thorlacius, L., Jonsson, T. (eds) M-Theory and Quantum Geometry. NATO Science Series, vol 556. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4303-5_1
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