QCD Sum Rules and B Decays

Abstract

We review some recent applications of QCD sum rules to $B$-decays. These include the determination of the leptonic constant $f_B$ and of the semileptonic transition amplitudes of the $B$-meson into negative and positive parity charmed states.

25 pages, 1 figure (not included) available upon request, TeX, BARI-TH/92-132, UTS-UFT-93-3