The SO(32) Heterotic and Type IIB Membranes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
A two dimensional anomaly cancellation argument is used to construct the SO(32) heterotic and type IIB membranes. By imposing different boundary conditions at the two boundaries of a membrane, we shift all of the two dimensional anomaly to one of the boundaries. The topology of these membranes is that of a 2-dimensional cone propagating in the 11-dimensional target space. Dimensional reduction of these membranes yields the SO(32) heterotic and type IIB strings.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9811234,
title = {The SO(32) Heterotic and Type IIB Membranes},
author = {F. Aldabe and A. L. Larsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9811234},
year = {2009}
}
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12 pages, Latex