Supergravity solitons and non-perturbative superstrings
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
A review is given of the implications of supersymmetric black holes for the non-perturbative formulation of toroidally compactified superstrings, with particular emphasis on symmetry enhancement at special vacua and S-duality of the heterotic string.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9510190,
title = {Supergravity solitons and non-perturbative superstrings},
author = {P. K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9510190},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex 8pp. To appear in Procs. of 1995 Trieste Spring Superstring School and Workshop