D-brane
D-brana
- Date
- 1989 · confidence high
- Place
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Credited to
- Jin Dai, Robert Leigh and Joseph Polchinski
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Extended objects in string theory on which open strings can end under Dirichlet boundary conditions; introduced by Jin Dai, Robert Leigh and Joseph Polchinski.
What it led to
- String theory dualities (T-duality)
- The AdS/CFT correspondence
- Brane models in cosmology and particle physics