A note on brane tension and M-theory

Abstract

We point out that some M-theory results for brane tension can be derived from Polchinski's formula for D-brane tension. We also argue that this formula determines gravitational and gauge couplings in the low energy but quantum exact effective action.

9 pages, Latex. Appendix on the resolution of an apparent conflict with the M theory quantization result of Duff et al added. Final version to be published in Phys. Lett. B

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