D-brane

brane on which strings can attach, thereby inducing Dirichlet boundary conditions on the string worldsheet theory
Thing general Q137880
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D-brane

Summary

D-brane ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • D-brane is credited with the discovery of Joseph Polchinski[2].
  • D-brane is credited with the discovery of Robert Graham Leigh[3].
  • D-brane's image is recorded as D3-brane et D2-brane.PNG[4].
  • Dirichlet boundary condition is named after D-brane[5].
  • D-brane's subclass of is recorded as brane[6].
  • D-brane's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1989-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • D-brane's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02l_xn[8].
  • D-brane's nLab ID is recorded as D-brane[9].
  • D-brane's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 191508978[10].
  • D-brane's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C191508978[11].
  • D-brane's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 234732[12].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Joseph Polchinski[2], a theoretical physicist[13], 1954–2018[14], of United States[15], awarded the Physics Frontiers Prize[16], specialised in theoretical physics[17] and Robert Graham Leigh[3], a physicist[18], b. 1964[19], of Canada[20], awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society[21].

Why It Matters

D-brane ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (60 views/month).[1] D-brane has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] D-brane is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.

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  1. [13] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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