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Wormholes on The World Volume

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I describe some recent work in which classical solutions of Dirac-Born-Infeld theory may be used to throw light on some properties of M-theory. The sources of Born-Infeld theory are the ends of strings ending on the world volume. Equivalently the fundamental string may be regarded as merely a thin and extended piece of the world volume.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/9801106,
  title  = {Wormholes on The World Volume},
  author = {G. W. Gibbons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9801106},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages Latex, no figures. This is the written version of a lecture given at "Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems VI ", Santiago, Chile, August 1997 to appear in the Proceedings edited by C. Teitelboim and J. Zanelli

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