The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
It is argued that the type IIA 10-dimensional superstring theory is actually a compactified 11-dimensional supermembrane theory in which the fundamental supermembrane is identified with the the solitonic membrane of 11-dimensional supergravity. The charged extreme black holes of the 10-dimensional type IIA string theory are interpreted as the Kaluza-Klein modes of 11-dimensional supergravity and the dual sixbranes as the analogue of Kaluza-Klein monopoles. All other p-brane solutions of the type IIA superstring theory are derived from the 11-dimensional membrane and its magnetic dual fivebrane soliton.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9501068,
title = {The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited},
author = {P. K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9501068},
year = {2016}
}
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10 pages, phyzzx.tex, no figures