Putting String/Fivebrane Duality to the Test
Abstract
According to string/fivebrane duality, the Green-Schwarz factorization of the D=10 spacetime anomaly polynomial I12 into X4\, X8 means that just as X4 is the anomaly polynomial of the d=2 string worldsheet so X8 should be the anomaly polynomial of the d=6 fivebrane worldvolume. To test this idea we perform a fivebrane calculation of X8 and find perfect agreement with the string one--loop result.
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