Heterotic and type I strings from twisted supermembranes

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00263-5MaRDI QIDQ1921024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fermin Aldabe

Publication date 12 August 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9603183

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductiondualitiesgravitational anomaliesHorava Witten action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: As shown by Hov{r}ava and Witten, there are gravitational anomalies at the boundaries of $M^{10}imes{S}^1/Z_2$ of 11 dimensional supergravity. They showed that only 10 dimensional vector multiplets belonging to $E_8$ gauge group can be consistently coupled to this theory. Thus, the dimensional reduction of this theory should be the low energy limit of the $E_{8}imes{E}_8$ heterotic string. Here we assume that M-theory is a theory of supermembranes which includes twisted supermembranes. We show that for a target space $M^{10}imes{S}^1/Z_2$, in the limit in which $S^1/Z_2$ is small, the effective action is the $E_{8}imes{E}_8$ heterotic string. We also consider supermembranes on $M^{9}imes{S}^{1}imes{S}^1/Z_2$ and find the dualities expected from 11 dimensional supergravity on this manifold. We show that the requirements for worldsheet anomaly cancellations at the boundaries of the worldvolume action are the same requirements imposed on the Hov{r}ava-Witten action.

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