Putting string/string duality to the test.
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Abstract: After simultaneous compactification of spacetime and worldvolume on , the heterotic fivebrane with gauge group behaves like a heterotic string with gauge group , but with Kac--Moody levels different from those of the fundamental string. Thus the string/fivebrane duality conjecture in gets replaced by a string/string duality conjecture in . Since strings are better understood than fivebranes, this provides a more reliable laboratory in which to test the conjecture. According to string/string duality, the Green--Schwarz factorization of the spacetime anomaly polynomial into means that just as is the -model anomaly polynomial of the fundamental string worldsheet so should be the corresponding polynomial of the dual string worldsheet. To test this idea we perform a classical dual string calculation of and find agreement with the quantum fundamental string result. This also provides an {it a posteriori} justification for assumptions made in a previous paper on string/fivebrane duality. Finally we speculate on the relevance of string/string duality to the vacuum degeneracy problem.
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