The Heterotic Dyonic Instanton

The static Yang-Mills-Higgs dyonic instanton is shown to have a non-vanishing, but anti-self-dual, angular momentum 2-form with skew eigenvalues equal to the electric charge; for large charge the angular momentum causes the instanton to expand into a hyper-spherical shell. A class of exact multi dyonic instantons is then found and then generalized to a new class of 1/4 supersymmetric, non-singular, stationary, exact solutions of the ten-dimensional supergravity/Yang-Mills theory. These self-gravitating dyonic instantons yield new heterotic string solitons, to leading order in the inverse string tension.Comment: 18 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Previous revision was to include exact multi-solitons. Third version corrects typos and ADM energy formul

Spacetime-Filling Branes and Strings with Sixteen Supercharges

We discuss branes whose worldvolume dimension equals the target spacetime dimension, i.e. ``spacetime-filling branes''. In addition to the D9-branes, there are 9-branes in the NS-NS sectors of both the IIA and IIB strings. The worldvolume actions of these branes are constructed, via duality, from the known actions of branes with codimension larger than zero. Each of these types of branes is used in the construction of a string theory with sixteen supercharges by modding out a type II string by an appropriate discrete symmetry and adding 32 9-branes. These constructions are related by a web of dualities and each arises as a different limit of the Horava-Witten construction.Comment: 43 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, uses html.sty, version to appear in Nucl. Phys.

T-duality and Actions for Non-BPS D-branes

We employ T-duality to restrict the tachyon dependence of effective actions for non-BPS D-branes. For the Born-Infeld part the criteria of T-duality and supersymmetry are satisfied by a simple extension of the D-brane Born-Infeld action.Comment: Latex, 11 page

Instantonic dyons of Yang-Mills--Chern-Simons models in d=2n+1 dimensions, n>2

We investigate finite energy solutions of Yang-Mills--Chern-Simons systems in odd spacetime dimensions, d=2n+1, with n>2. This can be carried out systematically for all n, but the cases n=3,4 corresponding to a 7,8 dimensional spacetime are treated concretely. These are static and spherically symmetric configurations, defined in a flat Minkowski background. The value of the electric charge is fixed by the Chern-Simons coupling constant.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure

Gauged supergravity from dimensional reduction

We perform a generalised Scherk-Schwarz reduction of the effective action of the heterotic string on T6 to obtain a massive N = 4 supergravity theory in four dimensions. The local symmetry-group of the resulting d = 4 theory includes a Heisenberg group, which is a subgroup of the global 0(6,6 + n) obtained in the standard reduction. We show explicitly that the same theory can be obtained by gauging this Heisenberg group in d = 4, N = 4 supergravity.

Comparative gene finding in chicken indicates that we are closing in on the set of multi-exonic widely expressed human genes

The recent availability of the chicken genome sequence poses the question of whether there are human protein-coding genes conserved in chicken that are currently not included in the human gene catalog. Here, we show, using comparative gene finding followed by experimental verification of exon pairs by RT-PCR, that the addition to the multi-exonic subset of this catalog could be as little as 0.2%, suggesting that we may be closing in on the human gene set. Our protocol, however, has two shortcomings: (i) the bioinformatic screening of the predicted genes, applied to filter out false positives, cannot handle intronless genes; and (ii) the experimental verification could fail to identify expression at a specific developmental time. This highlights the importance of developing methods that could provide a reliable estimate of the number of these two types of gene

Diagrammar and metamorphosis of coset symmetries in dimensionally reduced type IIB supergravity

Studying the reduction of type IIB supergravity from ten to three space-time dimensions we describe the metamorphosis of Dynkin diagram for gravity line "caterpillar" into a type IIB supergravity "dragonfly" that is triggered by inclusion of scalars and antisymmetric tensor fields. The final diagram corresponds to type IIB string theory E8 global symmetry group which is the subgroup of the conjectured E11 hidden symmetry group. Application of the results for getting the type IIA/IIB T-duality rules and for searching for type IIB vacua solutions is considered.Comment: 9 pp, 7 figs, LATEX; to be published in JETP Let

Estudio cinético e isotérmico de la biosorción de Zinc (II) y Cadmio (II) para un sistema monometálico-bimetálico por Undaria pinnatífida sp

Se estudió la capacidad de adsorción que tiene el alga marina Undaria pinnatifida sp. en la adsorción de los iones metálicos de zinc y cadmio para un sistema individual (monometalico) y en mezclas (bimetálico) de una solución acuosa. Se estudió preliminarmente para este proceso, el tiempo de contacto, pH de la solución y tratamiento del biopolímero. El estudio de la cinética determinó que el comportamiento del sistema de adsorción fue de pseudo segundo orden usando la ecuación de Langergren (concentración inicial 50 mg/L, peso del biopolímero = 0,4g; pH = 3 - 5). El modelamiento no lineal de las isotermas de Langmuir y Freundlich, con el modelo de Langmuir se obtuvo un mejor coeficiente de correlación cercano a la unidad, determinándose que la máxima capacidad de sorción de los iones metales como zinc fue qmax = 44,91 mg/g y cadmio qmax = 102,38 mg/g a pH = 4 en un tiempo de contacto de 60 minutos, con el alga sin tratamiento en el sistema monometálico, siendo más eficiente la adsorción para el ion cadmio. Para el sistema bimetálico se empleó dos métodos: el método de las isoconcentraciones que dio a conocer el comportamiento en la adsorción de ambos metales en solución y el método de las concentraciones variables empleando el análisis de regresión del modelo de Langmuir modificado, que dio a conocer los valores de la capacidad máxima de adsorción, siendo para el ion metálico zinc qmax = 0,27 mmol/g; cadmio qmax= 1,27 mmol/g y para la adsorción de ambos metales sobre la biomasa qmax= 1,13 mmol/gFil: Mori C., M.. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; PerúFil: Maldonado G., H.. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; PerúFil: Guzman L., E. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; PerúFil: Eyras, María Cecilia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Bernardelli, Cecilia Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo En Fermentaciones Industriales (i); Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Viera, M.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo En Fermentaciones Industriales (i); Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Nacional Patagónico; ArgentinaFil: Donati, Edgardo Ruben. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico la Plata. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo En Fermentaciones Industriales (i); Argentin

Non-BPS Branes in a Type I Orbifold

We analyse the spectrum of non-BPS branes in the type I theory on the orbifold $T^4/{\cal I}_4$. We present a detailed analysis of the action of the worldsheet parity $\Omega$ on the different D-brane boundary state sectors of type IIB on $T^4/{\cal I}_4$, using the covariant formulation. Using these results we derive the spectrum of branes in the type I orbifold. We find $\Z_2$- and $\Z$- charged non-BPS branes. A study of the stability of these branes in the type I orbifold is also presented. We find that the type I non-BPS D-particle and D-instanton remain stable in the orbifold. The D-particle carries no charge whereas the non-BPS D-instanton can carry twisted R-R charge.Comment: 32 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Stability analysis has been corrected: the D-particle is found to be stabl