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A brief account is given of the spectrum of extended-object solutions to supergravity theories that saturate Bogomol’ny-Prasad-Sommerfield bounds, and which therefore are candidates for exact states in the underlying string theory. These are organized into a coherent scheme by a pattern of vertical and diagonal dimensional reduction trajectories on a plot of worldvolume versus spacetime dimension. These intersecting reduction trajectories are related by duality symmetries at the intersection points, and these duality symmetries govern also the multiplicities of the p-branes at each (worldvolume, spacetime) dimension.
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Stelle, K.S. (1998). p-Brane chemistry. In: Wess, J., Akulov, V.P. (eds) Supersymmetry and Quantum Field Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 509. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0105224
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