Figure

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiii

List of abbreviations

pp xiv-xiv

1 - Introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - Short Excursion

pp 5-6

2 - Central charges in superalgebras

pp 7-14

3 - The main building blocks

pp 15-78

Part II - Long Journey

pp 79-80

Introduction to Part II

pp 81-84

4 - Non-Abelian strings

pp 85-141

5 - Less supersymmetry

pp 142-170

6 - Non-BPS non-Abelian strings

pp 171-187

7 - Strings on the Higgs branches

pp 188-195

8 - Domain walls as D-brane prototypes

pp 196-208

9 - Wall-string junctions

pp 209-222

10 - Conclusions

pp 223-227

Appendix A - Conventions and notation

pp 228-233

Appendix B - Many faces of two-dimensional supersymmetric CP(N − 1) model

pp 234-242

Appendix C - Strings in N = 2 SQED

pp 243-247

References

pp 248-255

Index

pp 256-257

Author index

pp 258-260