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Five-branes And $M$-Theory On An Orbifold

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-07 v3

Abstract

We relate Type IIB superstrings compactified to six dimensions on K3 to an eleven-dimensional theory compactified on (S1)5/Z2({\bf S}^1)^5/{\bf Z}_2. Eleven-dimensional five-branes enter the story in an interesting way.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512219,
  title  = {Five-branes And $M$-Theory On An Orbifold},
  author = {Edward Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512219},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

18 pages, harvmac. Error concerning Stieffel-Whitney classes has been corrected