D-brane actions

1996/01/31 by Christof Schmidhuber · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00092-2

published as Nucl.Phys. B467 (1996) 146-158 · 15 pages, references/footnotes added; final version to appear in NPB

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Abstract

Effective world-brane actions for solitons of ten-dimensional type IIA and IIB superstring theory are derived using the formulation of solitons as Dirichlet branes. The one-brane actions are used to recover predictions of SL(2,Z) strong-weak coupling duality. The two-brane action, which contains a hidden eleventh target space coordinate, is shown to be the eleven-dimensional supermembrane action. It can be thought of as the membrane action of `M-theory'.

Citations

• Non-linear electrodynamics from quantized strings
• Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond Charges

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