S duality and dyonic p-brane solutions in type II string theory

Aug, 1995
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 53 (1996) 7206-7212
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Report number:
  • UG-7-95,
  • QMW-PH-95-23

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Abstract:
We show how a solitonic ``magnetically'' charged pp-brane solution of a given supergravity theory, with the magnetic charge carried by an antisymmetric tensor gauge field, can be generalized to a dyonic solution. We discuss the cases of ten-dimensional and eleven-dimensional supergravity in more detail and a new dyonic five-brane solution in ten dimensions is given. Unlike the purely electrically or magnetically charged five-brane solution the dyonic five-brane contains non-zero Ramond--Ramond fields and is therefore an intrinsically typeII solution. The solution preserves half of the typeII spacetime supersymmetries. It is obtained by applying a solution-generating SL(2,R)×SL(2,R)SL(2,\R) \times SL(2,\R) SSduality transformation to the purely magnetically charged five-brane solution. One of the SL(2,R)SL(2,\R) duality transformations is basically an extension to the typeII case of the six-dimensional Z2\Z_2 string/string duality.
We also present an action underlying the type IIB supergravity theory.
Note:
  • 18 pages, latex file. Minor changes in text
  • 11.27.+d
  • 11.25.Mj
  • 04.65.+e
  • string model
  • supersymmetry
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • duality: transformation
  • supergravity
  • dyon