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String theory dualities from M-theory

1996; Elsevier BV; Volume: 476; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0550-3213(96)00321-5

ISSN

1873-1562

Autores

Ofer Aharony,

Tópico(s)

Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

Resumo

We analyze how string theory dualities may be described in M-theory. T-dualities arise from scalar-vector dualities in the worldvolume of the membrane of M-theory. "Electric-magnetic" dualities arise from a duality transformation in M-theory compactified on a 3-torus, which takes the membrane into a fivebrane wrapped around the 3-torus. We show how the action of the membrane transforms into the action of the wrapped fivebrane by this fransformation. Other "electric-magnetic" dualities are related to this duality by compactifications and orbifoldings.

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