1998/11/15 by Tadahiko Kimura, Ichiro Oda
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
published as Nucl.Phys. B551 (1999) 183-203 · 20 pages, LaTex 2e
arxiv created 1998/11/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We show that supersymmetric and κ-symmetric Dp-brane actions in type II supergravity background have the same duality transformation properties as those in a flat Minkowskian background. Specially, it is shown that the super D-string transforms in a covariant way while the super D3-brane is self-dual under the SL(2,Z) duality. Also, the D2-brane and the D4-brane transform in ways expected from the relation between type IIA superstring theory and M-theory. The present study proves that various duality symmetries, which were originally found in the flat background field, are precisely valid even in the curved background geometry.