The Universality of M-branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-12-21 v2
Abstract
We review the evidence for the various dualities amongst the five D=10 superstring theories and for the existence of M-theory using the associated effective supergravity theories. We also summarise the combinatorial technics developed for constructing BPS solutions in D=11 supergravity theory and conjecture that all the BPS solutions of D<11 supergravity theories can be derived from the BPS solutions of D=11 supergravity that preserve 1/2 the supersymmetry. To demonstrate this, we derive the dyonic p-brane solutions from eleven dimensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9611029,
title = {The Universality of M-branes},
author = {G. Papadopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9611029},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Many changes have been made in the text and some references have been added. 8 pages, Latex, Talk at the Imperial College Workshop 5-10 July