M Theory from World-Sheet Defects in Liouville String
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-06 v1
Abstract
We have argued previously that black holes may be represented in a D-brane approach by monopole and vortex defects in a sine-Gordon field theory model of Liouville dynamics on the world sheet. Supersymmetrizing this sine-Gordon system, we find critical behaviour in 11 dimensions, due to defect condensation that is the world-sheet analogue of D-brane condensation around an extra space-time dimension in M theory. This supersymmetric description of Liouville dynamics has a natural embedding within a 12-dimensional framework suggestive of F theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9706125,
title = {M Theory from World-Sheet Defects in Liouville String},
author = {John Ellis and N. E. Mavromatos and D. V. Nanopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9706125},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
17 pages LATEX, 1 epsf figure included