Eleven-dimensional origin of string/string duality: a one-loop test
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
DUFF, MJ
LIU, JT
MINASIAN, R
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Membrane/ fivebrane duality in D = 11 implies Type IIA string/Type IIA fivebrane duality in D = 10, which in turn implies Type HA string/heterotic string duality in D = 6. To test the conjecture, we reproduce the corrections to the 3-form field equations of the D = 10 Type IIA string (a mixture of tree-level and one-loop effects) starting from the Chern-Simons corrections to the 7-form Bianchi identities of the D = 11 fivebrane (a purely tree-level effect). K3 compactification of the latter then yields the familiar gauge and Lorentz Chem-Simons corrections to 3-form Bianchi identities of the heterotic string. We note that the absence of a dilaton in the D = 11 theory allows us to fix both the gravitational constant and the fivebrane tension in terms of the membrane tension. We also comment on an apparent conflict between fundamental and solitonic heterotic strings and on the puzzle of a fivebrane origin of S-duality.
Date Issued
1995-10-09
Date Acceptance
1995-07-11
Citation
Nuclear Physics B, 1995, 452 (1-2), pp.261-282
ISSN
0550-3213
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
261
End Page
282
Journal / Book Title
Nuclear Physics B
Volume
452
Issue
1-2
Copyright Statement
© 1995, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
STRING 5-BRANE DUALITY
ELECTRIC MAGNETIC DUALITY
= 11 SUPERGRAVITY
P-BRANES
GRAVITATIONAL ANOMALIES
SOLITONS
SUPERMEMBRANES
SUPERSTRINGS
COMPACTIFICATION
ALGEBRAS
Publication Status
Published