Heterotic solitons
Jun 13, 199018 pages
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- Nucl.Phys.B 343 (1990) 167-184,
- Nucl.Phys.B 353 (1991) 565-565 (erratum)
- Published: 1990
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- UCSB-TH-90-16
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
An explicit, supersymmetric solution to the low-energy heterotic string field equations representing an extended soliton with five spatial dimensions is found. This 5-brane is dual to heterotic strings in 10 dimensions in the same sense that magnetic charges are dual to electric charges in 4 dimensions. The 5-brane core is essentially a Yang-Mills instanton. The worldbrane field theory which describes the 5-brane dynamics is found to be heterotic in the sense that it has a chiral representation of supersymmetry and antichiral gauge fermions. A novel interaction between 5-branes generated by a heterotic, 2-dimensional field theory which lives on 5-brane intersection sheets, is discussed. In the context of string compactification, a similar construction is shown to lead to monopoles, strings and membranes in 4 dimensions.- string model
- supersymmetry
- field equations: soliton
- membrane model: p-brane
- compactification
- dimension: 10
- zero mode
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