English

Dyonic Membranes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-09 v3

Abstract

We present dyonic multi-membrane solutions of the N=2 D=8 supergravity theory that serves as the effective field theory of the T2T^2-compactified type II superstring theory. The `electric' charge is fractional for generic asymptotic values of an axion field, as for D=4 dyons. These membrane solutions are supersymmetric, saturate a Bogomolnyi bound, fill out orbits of an Sl(2;Z)Sl(2;\Z) subgroup of the type II D=8 T-duality group, and are non-singular when considered as solutions of T3T^3-compactified D=11 supergravity. On K3K_3 compactification to D=4, the conjectured type II/heterotic equivalence allows the Sl(2;Z)Sl(2;\Z) group to be reinterpreted as the S-duality group of the toroidally compactified heterotic string and the dyonic membranes wrapped around homology two-cycles of K3K_3 as S-duals of perturbative heterotic string states.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9508177,
  title  = {Dyonic Membranes},
  author = {J. M. Izquierdo and N. D. Lambert and G. Papadopoulos and P. K. Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9508177},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Phyzzx. 27 pp. Additional para. added to introduction