Eleven-dimensional origin of string/string duality: A one-loop test

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(95)00368-3zbMath0925.81148arXivhep-th/9506126OpenAlexW2091089989WikidataQ53973789 ScholiaQ53973789MaRDI QIDQ1898650

James T. Liu, Ruben Minasian, Michael J. Duff

Publication date: 20 September 1995

Published in: Unnamed Author (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Membrane/fivebrane duality in D=11 implies Type IIA string/Type IIA fivebrane duality in D=10, which in turn implies Type IIA string/heterotic string duality in D=6. To test the conjecture, we reproduce the corrections to the 3-form field equations of the D=10 Type IIA string (a mixture of tree-level and one-loop effects) starting from the Chern-Simons corrections to the 7-form Bianchi identities of the D=11 fivebrane (a purely tree-level effect). K3 compactification of the latter then yields the familiar gauge and Lorentz Chern-Simons corrections to 3-form Bianchi identities of the heterotic string. We note that the absence of a dilaton in the D=11 theory allows us to fix both the gravitational constant and the fivebrane tension in terms of the membrane tension. We also comment on an apparent conflict between fundamental and solitonic heterotic strings and on the puzzle of a fivebrane origin of S-duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9506126

zbMATH Keywords

dilaton Chern Simons corrections 3 form Bianchi identities gauge corrections Lorentz Chern Simons corrections tree level effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

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