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Report number	hep-th/9509070 ; NSF-ITP-95-108 ; MCGILL-95-45 ; CERN-TH-95-236 ; PUPT-1562A ; PUPT-1561 ; CERN-TH-95-236 ; MCGILL-95-45 ; NSF-ITP-95-108 ; PUPT-1562
Title	Is string theory a theory of strings?
Author(s)	Johnson, Clifford V. (Santa Barbara, KITP) ; Kaloper, Nemanja (McGill U.) ; Khuri, Ramzi R. (McGill U. ; CERN) ; Myers, Robert C. (McGill U.)
Affiliation	(Univ. Calif. Santa Barbara) ; (McGill Univ. Montreal) ; (CERN)
Publication	1996
Imprint	13 Sep 1995
Number of pages	11
Note	Comments: 11 pages. Uses harvmac.tex (A note and a reference added) 11 pages. Uses harvmac.tex (A note and a reference added)
In:	Phys. Lett. B 368 (1996) 71-77
DOI	10.1016/0370-2693(95)01493-4
Subject category	Particle Physics - Theory
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.
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