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Not only does the heterotic string admit a heterotic fivebrane as a soliton but the heterotic fivebrane admits as a soliton a heterotic string. This provides further evidence that the two theories may be dual descriptions of the same physics, with the strong coupling regime of one theory described by the weak coupling regime of the other. To illustrate this, we show how the energy-momentum tensor of the quadratic Yang-Mills action associated with the string reduces to that of an elementary fivebrane, and how the energy-momentum tensor of the quartic Yang-Mills action associated with the fivebrane reduces to that of an elementary string.
Work supported in part by NSF grant PHY-9045132
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Duff, M.J. (1992). A Duality Between Strings and Fivebranes. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity. The Subnuclear Series, vol 29. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3402-0_6
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