Membrane tension and manifest IIB S-duality
Abstract
A manifestly S-dual, and `12 dimensional', IIB superstring action with an Sl(2; R) doublet of `Born-Infeld' fields is presented. The M-theory origin of the 12th dimension is the M-2-brane tension, which can be regarded as the flux of a 3-form worldvolume field strength. The latter is required by the fact that the M-2-brane can have a boundary on an M-5-brane.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- February 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00862-9
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9705160
- Bibcode:
- 1997PhLB..409..131T
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 10 pp. Phyzxx. Typos corrected. Some points clarified. Some refs. added (Yesterday's revised version wasn't)