Dirac Quantisation Conditions and Kaluza-Klein Reduction
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-07 v1
Abstract
We present the form of the Dirac quantisation condition for the p-form charges carried by p-brane solutions of supergravity theories. This condition agrees precisely with the conditions obtained in lower dimensions, as is necessary for consistency with Kaluza-klein dimensional reduction. These considerations also determine the charge lattice of BPS soliton states, which proves to be a universal modulus-independent lattice when the charges are defined to be the canonical charges corresponding to the quantum supergravity symmetry groups.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9710244,
title = {Dirac Quantisation Conditions and Kaluza-Klein Reduction},
author = {M. S. Bremer and H. Lu and C. N. Pope and K. S. Stelle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9710244},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
40 pages, Latex