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The M Theory Five-Brane and the Heterotic String

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

Brane actions with chiral bosons present special challenges. Recent progress in the description of the two main examples -- the M theory five-brane and the heterotic string -- is described. Also, double dimensional reduction of the M theory five-brane on K3 is shown to give the heterotic string.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9705092,
  title  = {The M Theory Five-Brane and the Heterotic String},
  author = {John H. Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9705092},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, latex, no figures; ICTP Conference Proceedings

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