A note on brane tension and M-theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v4
Abstract
We point out that some M-theory results for brane tension can be derived from Polchinski's formula for D-brane tension. We also argue that this formula determines gravitational and gauge couplings in the low energy but quantum exact effective action.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9607011,
title = {A note on brane tension and M-theory},
author = {S. P. de Alwis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9607011},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, Latex. Appendix on the resolution of an apparent conflict with the M theory quantization result of Duff et al added. Final version to be published in Phys. Lett. B