String-Membrane Duality in Seven Dimensions

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The original version of this paper dealt mostly with one side of string-membrane duality: the solitonic interpretation of the

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10.1016/0370-2693(95)00649-6

The conjectured equivalence of the heterotic string to a $K_3$ compactified type IIA superstring is combined with the conjectured equivalence of the latter to a compactified 11-dimensional supermembrane to derive a string membrane duality in seven dimensions; the membrane is a soliton of the string theory and vice versa. A prediction of this duality is that the heterotic string is a $K_3$ compactification of the solitonic 11-dimensional fivebrane. It is verified that the worldsheet action of the D=10 heterotic string is indeed obtainable by $K_3$ compactification of the worldvolume action of the 11-dimensional fivebrane, and it is suggested how the worldvolume action of the D=11 supermebrane may be similarly obtained by $T^3$ compactification of the worldvolume action of a D=10 heterotic fivebrane. Generalizations to $D=8$ string-threebrane and membrane-membrane duality are also discussed.

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