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Tension is Dimension

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We propose a simple universal formula for the tension of a D-brane in terms of a regularized dimension of the associated conformal field theory statespace.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9909072,
  title  = {Tension is Dimension},
  author = {J. A. Harvey and S. Kachru and G. Moore and E. Silverstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9909072},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, harvmac (b), one ref added, one typo fixed