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Strings from membranes and fivebranes
Under the six-dimensional heterotic/type IIA duality map, a solitonic membrane solution of heterotic string theory transforms into a singular solution of type IIA theory, and should therefore be interpreted as a fundamental membrane in the latter theory. This finding pointed to a gap in the formulat...
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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1996
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prop.2190440609 http://cds.cern.ch/record/297509 |
Sumario: | Under the six-dimensional heterotic/type IIA duality map, a solitonic membrane solution of heterotic string theory transforms into a singular solution of type IIA theory, and should therefore be interpreted as a fundamental membrane in the latter theory. This finding pointed to a gap in the formulation of string theory that was subsequently filled by the discovery of the role of D-branes as the carriers of Ramond-Ramond charge in type II string theory. The roles of compactified eleven-dimensional membranes and fivebranes in five-dimensional string theory are also discussed. |
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