Wrapping the M Theory Five-Brane on K3

Abstract

Using a recently constructed M5-brane world-volume action, we demonstrate that wrapping the M5-brane on K3 gives the heterotic string in seven dimensions. To facilitate the comparison, a new version of the world-sheet action for the Narain-compactified heterotic string, with manifest T duality invariance, is formulated.

14 pages, latex, no figures; an error has been corrected

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• Covariant Action for the Super-Five-Brane of M-Theory
• Covariant Action for a D=11 Five-Brane with the Chiral Field
• World-Volume Action of the M Theory Five-Brane

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