Dyonic Membranes
Abstract
We present dyonic multi-membrane solutions of the N=2 D=8 supergravity theory that serves as the effective field theory of the -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 subgroup of the type II D=8 T-duality group, and are non-singular when considered as solutions of -compactified D=11 supergravity. On compactification to D=4, the conjectured type II/heterotic equivalence allows the 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 as S-duals of perturbative heterotic string states.
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@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