Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1994-06-29
Nucl.Phys. B436 (1995) 507-528
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Replaced by version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(94)00538-P
After simultaneous compactification of spacetime and worldvolume on $K3$, the $D=10$ heterotic fivebrane with gauge group $SO(32)$ behaves like a $D=6$ heterotic string with gauge group $SO(28) \times SU(2)$, but with Kac--Moody levels different from those of the fundamental string. Thus the string/fivebrane duality conjecture in $D=10$ gets replaced by a string/string duality conjecture in $D=6$. Since $D=6$ strings are better understood than $D=10$ fivebranes, this provides a more reliable laboratory in which to test the conjecture. According to string/string duality, the Green--Schwarz factorization of the $D=6$ spacetime anomaly polynomial $I_{8}$ into $X_4\, \tilde{X}_4$ means that just as $X_4$ is the $\sigma$-model anomaly polynomial of the fundamental string worldsheet so $\tilde{X}_4$ should be the corresponding polynomial of the dual string worldsheet. To test this idea we perform a classical dual string calculation of $\tilde{X}_4$ and find agreement with the quantum fundamental string result. This also provides an {\it a posteriori} justification for assumptions made in a previous paper on string/fivebrane duality. Finally we speculate on the relevance of string/string duality to the vacuum degeneracy problem.
Duff M. J.
Minasian Ruben
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