Stringy evidence forD=11 structure in a strongly coupled type-IIA superstring
- 15 September 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 52 (6) , 3567-3575
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.3567
Abstract
Witten proposed that the low energy physics of a strongly coupled D=10 type-IIA superstring may be described by D=11 supergravity. To explore the stringy aspects of the underlying theory we examine the stringy massive states. We propose a systematic formula for identifying nonperturbative states in D=10 type-IIA superstring theory, such that, together with the elementary excited string states, they form D=11 supersymmetric multiplets, in SO(10) representations. This provides hints for the construction of a conjectured weakly coupled D=11 theory that is dual to the strongly coupled D=10 type-IIA superstring.Keywords
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