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The Status of String Theory
John H. Schwarz
There have been many remarkable developments in our understanding of superstring theory in the past few years, a period that has been described as ``the second superstring revoluti…
Remarks on the M5-Brane
John H. Schwarz
The fivebrane of M theory -- the M5-brane -- is an especially interesting object. It plays a central role in a geometric understanding of the Seiberg-Witten solution of N=2 D=4 gau…
The M Theory Five-Brane
John H. Schwarz
BPS saturated p-branes play an important role in recent progress in understanding superstring theory and M theory. One approach to understanding the dynamics of p-branes is to form…
The M Theory Five-Brane and the Heterotic String
John H. Schwarz
Brane actions with chiral bosons present special challenges. Recent progress in the description of the two main examples -- the M theory five-brane and the heterotic string -- is d…
Wrapping the M Theory Five-Brane on K3
Sergey Cherkis, John H. Schwarz
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 compari…
Dual D-Brane Actions
Mina Aganagic, Jaemo Park, Costin Popescu +1
Dual super Dp-brane actions are constructed by carrying out a duality transformation of the world-volume U(1) gauge field. The resulting world-volume actions, which contain a (p -…