
TL;DR
This paper investigates the duality symmetries of type II string theory compactified on a six-torus, providing evidence that a discrete $E_7( ext{Z})$ symmetry, called U-duality, is exact and unifies T- and S-dualities, with implications for black hole states and solitons.
Contribution
It presents evidence that the $E_7( ext{Z})$ duality group is an exact symmetry of type II string theory, extending the understanding of string dualities and black hole state identification.
Findings
$E_7( ext{Z})$ is a conjectured exact U-duality group.
Black hole states are identified with fundamental string modes.
Ramond-Ramond gauge bosons couple to solitons, not string excitations.
Abstract
The effective action for type II string theory compactified on a six torus is supergravity, which is known to have an duality symmetry. We show that this is broken by quantum effects to a discrete subgroup, , which contains both the T-duality group and the S-duality group . We present evidence for the conjecture that is an exact \lq U-duality' symmetry of type II string theory. This conjecture requires certain extreme black hole states to be identified with massive modes of the fundamental string. The gauge bosons from the Ramond-Ramond sector couple not to string excitations but to solitons. We discuss similar issues in the context of toroidal string compactifications to other dimensions, compactifications of the type II string on and compactifications of eleven-dimensional supermembrane theory.
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