PUTTING STRING-5-BRANE DUALITY TO THE TEST

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作者
DIXON, JA [1 ]
DUFF, MJ [1 ]
PLEFKA, JC [1 ]
机构
[1] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST,CTR THEORET PHYS,COLL STN,TX 77843
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3009
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
According to string-five-brane duality, the Green-Schwarz factorization of the D = 10 spacetime anomaly polynomial I12 into X4X8 means that just as X4 is the anomaly polynomial of the d = 2 string world sheet, so X8 should be the anomaly polynomial of the d = 6 five-brane world volume. To test this idea we perform a five-brane calculation of X8 and find perfect agreement with the string one-loop result.
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