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Published October 12, 1998 | public
Journal Article

M-momentum transfer between gravitons, membranes, and fivebranes as perturbative gauge theory processes

Abstract

Polchinski and Pouliot have shown that M-momentum transfer between membranes in super-gravity can be understood as a non-perturbative instanton effec in gauge theory. Here we consider a dual process: electric flux transmission between D-branes. We show that this process can be described in perturbation theory as virtual string pair creation, and is closely related to Schwinger's treatment of the pair creation of charged particles in a uniform electric field. Through the application of dualities, our perturbative calculation gives results for various non-perturbative amplitudes, including M-momentum transfer between gravitons, membranes and longitudinal fivebranes. Thus perturbation theory plus dualities are sufficient to demonstrate agreement between supergravity and gauge theory for a number of M-momentum transferring processes. A variety of other processes where branes are transmitted between branes, e.g. (p, q)-string transmission in IIB theory, can also be studied. We discuss the implications of our results for proving the eleven-dimensional Lorentz invariance of Matrix theory.

Additional Information

© 1998 Elsevier B.V. Received 14 April 1998, Revised 27 April 1998, Accepted 8 May 1998. Work supported in part by a DOE grant DE-FG03-92-ER40701. Work supported in part by a DOE grant DE-FG03-92-ER40701 and by the DuBridge Foundation.

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