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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}
}

Comments

10 pages, phyzzx.tex, no figures

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