STRING STRING DUALITY CONJECTURE IN SIX DIMENSIONS AND CHARGED SOLITONIC STRINGS Export

@article{citeulike:5383306, abstract = {It has recently been conjectured that the type IIA string theory compactified on K3 and the heterotic string theory compactified on a four dimensional torus describe identical string theories. The fundamental heterotic string can be regarded as a non-singular soliton solution of the type IIA string theory with a semi-infinite throat. We show that this solution admits 24 parameter non-singular deformation describing a fundamental heterotic string carrying electric charge and current. The charge is generated due to the coupling of the gauge fields to the anti-symmetric tensor field, and not to an explicit source term. This clarifies how soliton solutions carrying charge under the Ramond-Ramond fields can be constructed in the type IIA theory, and provides further support to the string string duality conjecture. Similarly, the fundamental type IIA string can be regarded as a non-singular solution of the heterotic string theory with a semi-infinite throat, but this solution does not admit any deformation representing charged string. This is also consistent with the expectation that a fundamental type IIA string does not carry any charge that couples to the fields originating in the Ramond-Ramond sector.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Sen, Ashoke}, citeulike-article-id = {5383306}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504027}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9504027}, day = {6}, eprint = {hep-th/9504027}, keywords = {dualities, solitons, strings}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2009-08-06 17:46:21}, priority = {2}, title = {STRING STRING DUALITY CONJECTURE IN SIX DIMENSIONS AND CHARGED SOLITONIC STRINGS}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504027}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5383306 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5383306 N2 - It has recently been conjectured that the type IIA string theory compactified on K3 and the heterotic string theory compactified on a four dimensional torus describe identical string theories. The fundamental heterotic string can be regarded as a non-singular soliton solution of the type IIA string theory with a semi-infinite throat. We show that this solution admits 24 parameter non-singular deformation describing a fundamental heterotic string carrying electric charge and current. The charge is generated due to the coupling of the gauge fields to the anti-symmetric tensor field, and not to an explicit source term. This clarifies how soliton solutions carrying charge under the Ramond-Ramond fields can be constructed in the type IIA theory, and provides further support to the string string duality conjecture. Similarly, the fundamental type IIA string can be regarded as a non-singular solution of the heterotic string theory with a semi-infinite throat, but this solution does not admit any deformation representing charged string. This is also consistent with the expectation that a fundamental type IIA string does not carry any charge that couples to the fields originating in the Ramond-Ramond sector. TI - STRING STRING DUALITY CONJECTURE IN SIX DIMENSIONS AND CHARGED SOLITONIC STRINGS KW - dualities KW - solitons KW - strings AU - Sen, Ashoke PY - 1995/Apr/06/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9504027 ER -