AdS2 D-branes in AdS3 spacetime

Abstract

I review some recent progress in understanding the properties of AdS2 branes in AdS3. Different methods - classical string motion, Born-Infeld dynamics, boundary states - are evocated and compared.

7 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the workshop "Across the present energy frontier : probing the origin of mass", Corfu, Greece, Sept. 2001

References in corpus (8)

• Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity
• Crossing Symmetry in the $H_3^{+}$ WZNW model
• Non-Compact WZW Conformal Field Theories
• D-branes in an AdS_3 background
• Open Strings on AdS_2 Branes
• Monodromy of solutions of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation: SL(2,C)/SU(2) WZNW model
• Asymptotic symmetries of AdS2 Branes
• D-branes in some near-horizon geometries

Cited by in corpus (2)

• AdS_2 D-Branes in Lorentzian AdS_3
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