Evidence for new seven-branes

✍ Scribed by E.A. Bergshoeff; J. Hartong; T. Ortín; D. Roest

• Book ID: 105357601
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200610351

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In order to construct globally well‐defined 7‐brane solutions we postulate the existence of a new type of 7‐brane. We show that these new 7‐branes play an important role in understanding both the existing F‐theory 7‐brane configurations as well as more general 7‐brane configurations.