nLab Joseph Polchinski

Selected writings

Introducing Polchinski's flow equation in renormalization:

Introducing orientifolds:

Introducing D-branes:

although it appears that we have modified the type II theory by adding something new to it, we are now arguing that these objects are actually intrinsic to any nonperturbative formulation of the type II theory; presumably one should think of them as an alternate representation of the black pp-branes

General review includes

On orientifolds, RR-field tadpole cancellation and orientifolds of K3:

On AdS/CFT duality:

Textbook on string theory:

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