TL;DR
This paper explores how various string theory dualities can be understood within M theory, revealing their origins as dualities in the membrane and fivebrane configurations in compactified M theory.
Contribution
It demonstrates that string dualities emerge from scalar-vector and electric-magnetic dualities in M theory's membrane and fivebrane worldvolumes.
Findings
T dualities originate from scalar-vector dualities in M theory membranes.
Electric-magnetic dualities correspond to membrane-fivebrane transformations.
Dualities are linked to compactification on a 3-torus.
Abstract
We analyze how string theory dualities may be described in M theory. T dualities arise from scalar-vector dualities in the worldvolume of the membrane of M theory. ``Electric-magnetic'' dualities arise from a duality transformation in M theory compactified on a 3-torus, which takes the membrane into a fivebrane wrapped around the 3-torus.
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