{
  "id": "hep-th/9509070",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1995-09-14T01:01:06.000Z",
  "updated": "1995-10-31T03:45:12.000Z",
  "title": "Is string theory a theory of strings?",
  "authors": [
    "Clifford V. Johnson",
    "Nemanja Kaloper",
    "Ramzi R. Khuri",
    "Robert C. Myers"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages. Uses harvmac.tex (A note and a reference added)",
  "journal": "Phys.Lett. B368 (1996) 71-77",
  "doi": "10.1016/0370-2693(95)01493-4",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "Recently a great deal of evidence has been found indicating that type IIA string theory compactified on K3 is equivalent to heterotic string theory compactified on T^4. Under the transformation which relates the two theories, the roles of fundamental and solitonic string solutions are interchanged. In this letter we show that there exists a solitonic membrane solution of the heterotic string theory which becomes a singular solution of the type IIA theory, and should therefore be interpreted as a fundamental membrane in the latter theory. We speculate upon the implications that the complete type IIA theory is a theory of membranes, as well as strings.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1995-10-31T03:45:12.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "heterotic string theory",
      "complete type iia theory",
      "solitonic membrane solution",
      "solitonic string solutions",
      "type iia string theory"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 399396
    }
  }
}