Abstract
The space-time dynamics of recently discovered fivebrane solitons in heterotic and type II string theories are described in terms of supersymmetric low-energy field theories which live on the (5+1)-dimensional soliton worldbranes. Several surprising features emerge, including: the (hitherto unsuspected) existence of both chiral and non-chiral type II five-branes; spin-one gauge as well as anti-self-dual tensor zero modes; extended supersymmetry on the worldbrane. Non-renormalization theorems for supersymmetric worldbrane actions are used to argue that gauge fivebrane (and instanton) solutions to the leading-order low-energy string equation of motion correspond to exact supersymmetric solutions of the full string equation of motion.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 60-82 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Nuclear Physics, Section B |
Volume | 367 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 16 1991 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics