GEOMETRY OF STRINGS AND BRANES

By A. JAZIN

Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The string theory framework 8 Chapter 2 The AdS/CFT correspondence 34 Chapter 3 The DW/QFT correspondence 53 Chapter 4 Brane world scenarios 73 Chapter 5 Weyl multiplets of conformal supergravity 85 Chapter 6 Matter-couplings of conformal supergravity 116