Brane dynamics and gauge theory

Amit Giveon; David Kutasov

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Brane dynamics and gauge theory

Amit Giveon and David Kutasov

Amit Giveon

Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

David Kutasov

EFI and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 983 – Published 1 July, 1999

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.983

Abstract

The authors review some aspects of the interplay between the dynamics of branes in string theory and the classical and quantum physics of gauge theories with different numbers of supersymmetries in various dimensions.

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