Dyonic p-branes from self-dual (p + 1)-branes
May, 1996
7 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 384 (1996) 86-92,
- Phys.Lett.B 384 (1996) 86-92
- Published: Feb 12, 1999
e-Print:
- hep-th/9605146 [hep-th]
DOI:
- 10.1016/0370-2693(96)00785-X (publication)
Report number:
- DAMTP-R-96-26
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Abstract: (Elsevier B.V.)
The “electromagnetic” Sl(2;) duality group in spacetime dimension D = 4k can be given a Kaluza-Klein interpretation in D = 4K + 2 as the modular group of a compactifying torus. We show how dyonic 2(k − 1)-branes in D = 4k can be interpreted as self-dual (2k − 1)-branes in D = 4k + 2 wound around the homology cycles of the torus. In particular, dyons of the D = 4 N = 4 heterotic string theory are interpreted as winding modes of a D = 6 self-dual string, while D = 8 dyonic membranes are interpreted as wound 3-branes of D = 10 IIB superstring theory. We also discuss the T-dual IIA interpretations of D = 8 dyonic membranes.Note:
- 16 pp. phyzzx. 1 fig Report-no: DAMTP-R/96/26
- membrane model: p-brane
- field theory: dyon
- duality: SL(2,Z)
- Kaluza-Klein model
- string model
- gauge field theory
- supersymmetry
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