{ital S} duality and dyonic {ital p}-brane solutions in type II string theory
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen (The Netherlands)
- Department of Physics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS (United Kingdom)
We show how a solitonic {open_quote}{open_quote}magnetically{close_quote}{close_quote} charged {ital p}-brane solution of a given supergravity theory, with the magnetic charge carried by an antisymmetric tensor gauge field, can be generalized to a dyonic solution. We discuss the cases of ten-dimensional and eleven-dimensional supergravity in more detail and a new dyonic five-brane solution in ten dimensions is given. Unlike the purely electrically or magnetically charged five-brane solution the dyonic five-brane contains nonzero Ramond-Ramond fields and is, therefore, an intrinsically type II solution. The solution preserves half of the type II spacetime supersymmetries. It is obtained by applying a solution-generating SL(2,{ital R}){times}SL(2,{ital R}) {ital S} duality transformation to the purely magnetically charged five-brane solution. One of the SL(2,{ital R}) duality transformations is basically an extension to the type II case of the six-dimensional {ital Z}{sub 2} string-string duality. We also present an action underlying the type IIB supergravity theory. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 284827
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 53; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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