Download or read book Geometry and Physics of Branes written by U Bruzzo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Branes are solitonic configurations of a string theory that are represented by extended objects in a higher-dimensional space-time. They are essential for a comprehension of the non-perturbative aspects of string theory, in particular, in connection with string dualities. From the mathematical viewpoint, branes are related to several important theo