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Wrapping the M Theory Five-Brane on K3

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-11 v2

Abstract

Using a recently constructed M5-brane world-volume action, we demonstrate that wrapping the M5-brane on K3 gives the heterotic string in seven dimensions. To facilitate the comparison, a new version of the world-sheet action for the Narain-compactified heterotic string, with manifest T duality invariance, is formulated.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9703062,
  title  = {Wrapping the M Theory Five-Brane on K3},
  author = {Sergey Cherkis and John H. Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9703062},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, latex, no figures; an error has been corrected

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