D-brane actions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v3
Abstract
Effective world-brane actions for solitons of ten-dimensional type IIA and IIB superstring theory are derived using the formulation of solitons as Dirichlet branes. The one-brane actions are used to recover predictions of SL(2,Z) strong-weak coupling duality. The two-brane action, which contains a hidden eleventh target space coordinate, is shown to be the eleven-dimensional supermembrane action. It can be thought of as the membrane action of `M-theory'.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9601003,
title = {D-brane actions},
author = {Christof Schmidhuber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9601003},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, references/footnotes added; final version to appear in NPB