D-brane actions

被引:146
作者
Schmidhuber, C
机构
[1] Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(96)00092-2
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
Effective world-brane actions for solitons of ten-dimensional type IIA and IIB superstring theory are derived using the formulation of solitons as Dirichlet branes. The one-brane actions are used to recover predictions of SL(2, Z) strong-weak coupling duality. The two-brane action, which contains a hidden eleventh target-space coordinate, is shown to be the eleven-dimensional supermembrane action. It can be thought of as the membrane action of ''M-theory''.
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页码:146 / 158
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