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A Comment on a Fivebrane Term in Superalgebra

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v2

Abstract

We review our recent discussion of fivebrane central terms that appear in the space-time superalgebra in D=10 provided that the space-time supercharges are taken in non-canonical pictures. We correct the mistake contained in the original version of the earlier paper hep-th/9703008 which suggested that the naive picture-changing of the superalgebra could give rise to the non-perturbative five-form term. The relation between picture-changing and p-brane central terms appears to be much more subtle, as is pointed out in the revised version of the mentioned paper.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9704191,
  title  = {A Comment on a Fivebrane Term in Superalgebra},
  author = {Dimitri Polyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9704191},
  year   = {2016}
}

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