An approach to F-theory.

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00521-5zbMATH Open1078.81549arXivhep-th/9712017MaRDI QIDQ1570703

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Publication date: 11 July 2000

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Abstract: We consider BPS configurations in theories with two timelike directions from the perspective of the supersymmetry algebra. We show that whereas a BPS state in a theory with one timelike variable must have positive energy, in a theory with two times any BPS state must have positive angular momentum in the timelike plane, in that Z0ilde0>0, where 0 and ilde0 are the two timelike directions. We consider some generic BPS solutions of theories with two timelike directions, and then specialise to the study of the (10,2) dimensional superalgebra for which the spinor operators generate 2-forms and 6-forms. We argue that the BPS configurations of this algebra relate to F-theory in the same way that the BPS configurations of the eleven dimensional supersymmetry algebra relate to M-theory. We show that the twelve dimensional theory is one of fundamental 3-branes and 7-branes, along with their dual partners. We then formulate the new intersection rules for these objects. Upon reduction of this system we find the algebraic description of the IIB-branes and the M-branes. Given these correspondences we may begin an algebraic study of F-theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9712017




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