The M Theory Five-Brane
Abstract
BPS saturated p-branes play an important role in recent progress in understanding superstring theory and M theory. One approach to understanding the dynamics of p-branes is to formulate an effective (p+1)-dimensional world-volume theory. The construction of such brane actions involves a number of interesting issues. One such issue is how to formulate the action for theories that contain chiral bosons. The two main examples, which are the M theory five-brane and the heterotic string, are described in this lecture. 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/9706197,
title = {The M Theory Five-Brane},
author = {John H. Schwarz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706197},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
22 pages, latex, no figures; lecture presented at the APCPT--ICTP Joint International Conference '97 (AIJIC97). This is an extended version of hep-th/9705092