Published 1998
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Miscellaneous
The M theory five-brane
Description
BPS saturated p-branes play an important role in recent progress in understanding superstring theory and M theory. One approach to understanding the dynamics of p-branes is to formulate an effective (p+1) dimensional world-volume theory. The construction of such brane actions involves a number of interesting issues. One such issue is how to formulate the action for theories that contain chiral bosons. The two main examples, which are the M theory five-brane and the heterotic string, are described in this lecture. Also, double dimensional reduction of the M theory five-brane on K3 is shown to give the heterotic string. (Author). 32 refs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publication Co. Pte. Ltd.
- Imprint Place
- Singapore (Singapore)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the APCTP - ICTP joint international conference. Recent developments in nonperturbative quantum field theory
- Imprint Pagination
- 397 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-18
Conference
- Title
- 1997 APCTP - ICTP joint international conference
- Dates
- 26-30 May 1997
- Place
- Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Singapore
- Country of Input or Organization
- Korea, Republic of
- INIS RN
- 31001815
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CHIRAL SYMMETRY; CHIRALITY; COUPLING; COUPLING CONSTANTS; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; METRICS; PARTICLE STRUCTURE; SCALARS; SU GROUPS; SUPERSTRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY; TENSORS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; STRING MODELS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS