SL(2,Z) S-duality of Super D-string Action in Type IIB Supergravity Background
Abstract
It is shown in a quantum-mechanically exact manner that a supersymmetric and $\kappa$-symmetric D-string action in a general type IIB supergravity background is transformed to a form of the type IIB Green-Schwarz superstring action with the SL(2,Z) covariant tension through an S-duality transformation. This result precisely proves a conjecture mentioned previously that the SL(2,Z) S-duality of a super D-string action in a flat background is also valid even in a curved IIB background geometry. We point further out the validity of the more generalized conjecture that various duality relations of super D-brane and M-brane actions originally found in a flat background also hold true in general ten dimensional type II supergravity and eleven dimensional supergravity background geometries by applying the present formalism to those cases.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 1998
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9810203
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9810203
- Bibcode:
- 1998hep.th...10203O
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, LaTex2e, non-constant dilaton and axion considered