KALUZA-KLEIN DYONS IN STRING THEORY

Authors
Citation
A. Sen, KALUZA-KLEIN DYONS IN STRING THEORY, Physical review letters, 79(9), 1997, pp. 1619-1621
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
79
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1619 - 1621
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)79:9<1619:KDIST>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
S duality of heterotic or type II string theory compactified on a six dimensional torus requires the existence of Kaluza-Klein dyons, carryi ng winding charge. We identify the zero modes of the Kaluza-Klein mono pole solution which are responsible for these dyonic excitations, and show that we get the correct degeneracy of dyons as predicted by S dua lity. The self-dual harmonic two form on the Euclidean Taub-NUT space plays a crucial role in this construction.