Rotational Invariance in the M(atrix) Formulation of Type IIB Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
The matrix model formulation of M-theory can be generalized by compactification to ten-dimensional type II string theory, formulated in the infinite momentum frame. Both the type IIA and IIB string theories can be formulated in this way. In the M-theory and type IIA cases, the transverse rotational invariance is manifest, but in the IIB case, one of the transverse dimensions materializes in a completely different way from the other seven. The full O(8) rotational symmetry then follows in a surprising way from the electric-magnetic duality of supersymmetric Yang-Mills field theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9702101,
title = {Rotational Invariance in the M(atrix) Formulation of Type IIB Theory},
author = {Savdeep Sethi and Leonard Susskind},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9702101},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, harvmac; references added