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On flux quantization in M-theory and the effective action

✍ Scribed by Edward Witten

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
936 KB
Volume
22
Category
Article
ISSN
0393-0440

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✦ Synopsis

The quantization law for the antisymmetric tensor field of M-theory contains a gravitational contribution not known previously. When it is included, the low energy effective action of M-theory, including one-loop and Chem-Simons contributions, is well defined. The relation of M-theory to the Es x E8 heterotic string greatly facilitates the analysis.

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