A MULTIMONOPOLE SOLUTION IN STRING THEORY

被引:34
作者
KHURI, RR
机构
[1] Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0370-2693(92)91528-H
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A multimonopole solution in Yang-Mills field theory is obtained by a modification of the 't Hooft ansatz for a four-dimensional instanton. Although this solution has divergent action near each source. it can be used to construct a finite action multimonopole solution of heterotic string theory, in which the divergences from the Yang-Mills sector are precisely cancelled by those from the gravity sector. We argue that this solution is exact to all orders in alpha'.
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页码:325 / 330
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