A note on brane tension and M-theory

Preprint

6 September 1996

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9607011

Abstract

We point out that some M-theory results for brane tension can be derived from Polchinski's formula for D-brane tension. We also argue that this formula determines gravitational and gauge couplings in the low energy but quantum exact effective action.

Keywords

DETERMINES GRAVITATIONAL
POLCHINSKI'S FORMULA
GAUGE COUPLINGS
GRAVITATIONAL
BRANE TENSION
QUANTUM EXACT
LOW ENERGY
TENSION

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Published version: Physics Letters B, 388 (2), 291.

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