Membrane tension and manifest IIB S-duality
P.K. Townsend
TL;DR
This paper presents a 12-dimensional IIB superstring action manifestly invariant under S-duality, linking M-theory's M-2-brane tension to the 12th dimension and incorporating a doublet of Born-Infeld fields.
Contribution
It introduces a novel 12-dimensional IIB superstring action with manifest S-duality and connects the 12th dimension to M-2-brane tension via M-theory insights.
Findings
Constructed a manifestly S-dual 12D IIB superstring action
Linked the 12th dimension to M-2-brane flux
Incorporated a doublet of Born-Infeld fields
Abstract
A manifestly S-dual, and `12 dimensional', IIB superstring action with an doublet of `Born-Infeld' fields is presented. The M-theory origin of the 12th dimension is the M-2-brane tension, which can be regarded as the flux of a 3-form worldvolume field strength. The latter is required by the fact that the M-2-brane can have a boundary on an M-5-brane.
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