BPS quantization of the five-brane

We give a unified description of all BPS states of M-theory compactified on T^5 in terms of the five-brane. We compute the mass spectrum and degeneracies and find that the SO(5,5,Z) U-duality symmetry naturally arises as a T-duality by assuming that the world-volume theory of the five-brane itself i...

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Autores principales: Dijkgraaf, Robbert, Verlinde, Erik P., Verlinde, Herman L.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 1996
Materias:
Particle Physics - Theory
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00639-6
http://cds.cern.ch/record/300749
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author Dijkgraaf, Robbert
Verlinde, Erik P.
Verlinde, Herman L.
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description We give a unified description of all BPS states of M-theory compactified on T^5 in terms of the five-brane. We compute the mass spectrum and degeneracies and find that the SO(5,5,Z) U-duality symmetry naturally arises as a T-duality by assuming that the world-volume theory of the five-brane itself is described by a string theory. We also consider the compactification on S^1/Z_2 \times T^4, and give a new explanation for its correspondence with heterotic string theory by exhibiting its dual equivalence to M-theory on K3\times S^1.
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spelling cern-3007492023-03-14T19:29:26Zdoi:10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00639-6http://cds.cern.ch/record/300749engDijkgraaf, RobbertVerlinde, Erik P.Verlinde, Herman L.BPS quantization of the five-braneParticle Physics - TheoryWe give a unified description of all BPS states of M-theory compactified on T^5 in terms of the five-brane. We compute the mass spectrum and degeneracies and find that the SO(5,5,Z) U-duality symmetry naturally arises as a T-duality by assuming that the world-volume theory of the five-brane itself is described by a string theory. We also consider the compactification on S^1/Z_2 \times T^4, and give a new explanation for its correspondence with heterotic string theory by exhibiting its dual equivalence to M-theory on K3\times S^1.We give a unified description of all BPS states of M-theory compactified on $T~5$ in terms of the five-brane. We compute the mass spectrum and degeneracies and find that the $SO(5,5,Z)$ U-duality symmetry naturally arises as a T-duality by assuming that the world-volume theory of the five-brane itself is described by a string theory. We also consider the compactification on $S~1/Z_2 \times T~4$, and give a new explanation for its correspondence with heterotic string theory by exhibiting its dual equivalence to M-theory on $K3\times S~1$.We give a unified description of all BPS states of M-theory compactified on T 5 in terms of the five-brane. We compute the mass spectrum and degeneracies and find that the SO(5, 5, Z U -duality symmetry naturally arises as a T -duality by assuming that the world-volume theory of the five-brane itself is described by a string theory. We also consider the compactification on S 1 / Z 2 × T 4 , and give a new explanation for its correspondence with heterotic string theory by exhibiting its dual equivalence to M-theory on K 3 × S 1 .hep-th/9604055CERN-TH-96-93PUPT-1603CERN-TH-96-093PUPT-1603oai:cds.cern.ch:3007491996-04-10
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Theory
Dijkgraaf, Robbert
Verlinde, Erik P.
Verlinde, Herman L.
BPS quantization of the five-brane
title BPS quantization of the five-brane
title_full BPS quantization of the five-brane
title_fullStr BPS quantization of the five-brane
title_full_unstemmed BPS quantization of the five-brane
title_short BPS quantization of the five-brane
title_sort bps quantization of the five-brane
topic Particle Physics - Theory
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00639-6
http://cds.cern.ch/record/300749
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