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The IIA super-eightbrane

E. Bergshoeff, M. B. Green, G. Papadopoulos, P. K. Townsend

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9511079

Abstract

We present a version of ten-dimensional IIA supergravity containing a 9-form potential for which the field equations are equivalent to those of the standard, massless, IIA theory for vanishing 10-form field strength, F10, and to those of the `massive' IIA theory for non-vanishing F10. We exhibit a multi 8-brane solution of this theory which preserves half the supersymmetry. We propose this solution as the effective field theory realization of the Dirichlet 8-brane of type IIA superstring theory.

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