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Spacetime‐Filling Branes and Strings with Sixteen Supercharges
Author(s) -
Bergshoeff Eric
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3978(20001)48:1/3<25::aid-prop25>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - brane cosmology , spacetime , physics , dimension (graph theory) , string (physics) , string theory , mathematical physics , theoretical physics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , mathematics
We discuss branes whose worldvolume dimension equals the target spacetime dimension, i.e. ‘spacetime‐filling branes’. In addition to the D9‐branes, there are 9‐branes in the NS‐NS sectors of both the IIA and IIB strings. Each of these types of branes is used in the construction of a string theory with sixteen supercharges by modding out a type II string by an appropriate discrete symmetry and adding 32 9‐branes. These constructions are related by a web of dualities and each arises as a different limit of the Hořava‐Witten construction.