1998/01/15 by G. W. Gibbons, Gibbons, G. W.
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9801106
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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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.