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The Branes of Supergravity
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I show how recent results in supergravity can be used to classify the half- supersymmetric branes of (toroidally compactified) string theory. It follows that many of the branes in lower dimensions follow from the ten-dimensional ones by imposing specific so-called `wrapping rules'. I discuss the relation with the central charges in the supersymmetry algebra and speculate how all these results are related to recent investigations on the geometry underlying string theory
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