The M Theory Five-Brane

dc.creatorSchwarz, John H.
dc.date1997-06-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:23:24Z
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dc.descriptionBPS saturated p-branes play an important role in recent progress in understanding superstring theory and M theory. One approach to understanding the dynamics of p-branes is to formulate an effective (p+1)-dimensional world-volume theory. The construction of such brane actions involves a number of interesting issues. One such issue is how to formulate the action for theories that contain chiral bosons. The two main examples, which are the M theory five-brane and the heterotic string, are described in this lecture. Also, double dimensional reduction of the M theory five-brane on K3 is shown to give the heterotic string.
dc.description22 pages, latex, no figures; lecture presented at the APCPT--ICTP Joint International Conference '97 (AIJIC97). This is an extended version of hep-th/9705092
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9706197
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9706197
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55017
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleThe M Theory Five-Brane
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