Membrane tension and manifest IIB S-duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v3
Abstract
A manifestly S-dual, and `12 dimensional', IIB superstring action with an doublet of `Born-Infeld' fields is presented. The M-theory origin of the 12th dimension is the M-2-brane tension, which can be regarded as the flux of a 3-form worldvolume field strength. The latter is required by the fact that the M-2-brane can have a boundary on an M-5-brane.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705160,
title = {Membrane tension and manifest IIB S-duality},
author = {P. K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705160},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pp. Phyzxx. Typos corrected. Some points clarified. Some refs. added (Yesterday's revised version wasn't)