Kar, Supriya ; Maharana, Jnanadeva ; Panda, Sudhakar (1996) Dualities in five dimensions and charged string solutions Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics, 465 (3). pp. 439-457. ISSN 0370-2693
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Abstract
We consider an eleven dimensional supergravity compactified on K3 × T2 and show that the resulting five dimensional theory has identical massless states as that of a heterotic string compactified on a specific five torus T5. The strong-weak coupling duality of the five dimensional theory is argued to represent a ten dimensional Type IIA string compactified on K3 × S1, supporting the conjecture of string-string duality in six dimensions. In this perspective, we present a magnetically charged solution of the low energy heterotic string effective action in five dimensions with a charge defined on a three sphere S3 due to the two form potential. We use the Poincare duality to replace the antisymmetric two form with a gauge field in the effective action and obtain a string solution with charge on a two sphere S2 instead of that on a three sphere S3 in the five dimensional spacetime. We note that the string-particle duality is accompanied by a change of topology from S3 to S2 and vice versa.
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Keywords: | String Theory; T-duality; S-duality |
ID Code: | 19708 |
Deposited On: | 22 Nov 2010 12:03 |
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