HyperKähler Manifolds & Multiply-Intersecting Branes
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This is a summary of the work in the author’s recent paper with this title written with Jerome Gauntlett, George Papadopoulos and Paul Townsend, hep-th/97022012. We showed how to construct hyper-Kähler 8metrics in terms of arrangements of three-dimensional hyperplanes in six-dimensional euclidean space. The slopes of the planes define two relatively prime integers (p, q). Under reduction to ten dimensions and T-duality we get a geometric picture of the action of SL(2, Z) on the (NS ⊗NS, qR ⊗ R) 5-branes of type IIB string theory. Configurations are exhibited with 3 16 ’th SUSY.
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