Interactions of strings and D-branes from M theory (original) (raw)

1996, Nuclear Physics B

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Abstract

We discuss the relation between M theory and type II string theories. We show that, assuming "natural" interactions between membranes and fivebranes in M theory, the known interactions between strings and D-branes in type II string theories arise in appropriate limits. Our discussion of the interactions is purely at the classical level. We remark on issues associated with the M theory approach to enhanced gauge symmetries, which deserve further investigation.

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When a ltundamental string has end-points on a U-string, these are charges on tne worldsheet of the D-string, so that there is a constant electric field between the two end- points. Thus, according to the description of D-strings in [23], the portion of the D-string between the two end-points is actually a (1, —1) string, and the time slices of the interaction actually look as in figure 3a (taking the D-string also to be a finite closed string). How can we understand such an interaction from M theory ? In the beginning we have two toroidal membranes, one with a cycle wrapped around the (1,0) cycle of the spacetime torus and another with a cycle wrapped around the (0,1) cycle of the spacetime torus. Then, they join together to vive a genus 2 surface. as in figure 3b.

When we take the spacetime torus to zero, the stringy description of this interaction becomes exactly that of figure 3a. The “middle” cycle (denoted by C in figure 3b) of join together to give a genus 2 surface, as in figure 3b.

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