Putting String/Fivebrane Duality to the Test

Dixon, J. A.; Duff, M. J.; Plefka, J. C.

Putting String/Fivebrane Duality to the Test

Authors

Dixon, J. A.

Duff, M. J.

Plefka, J. C.

Description

According to string/fivebrane duality, the Green-Schwarz factorization of the $D=10$ spacetime anomaly polynomial $I_{12}$ into $X_4\, X_8$ means that just as $X_4$ is the anomaly polynomial of the $d=2$ string worldsheet so $X_8$ should be the anomaly polynomial of the $d=6$ fivebrane worldvolume. To test this idea we perform a fivebrane calculation of $X_8$ and find perfect agreement with the string one--loop result.
14 pages, CERN TH-6614/92, CTP-TAMU 60/92