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In theoretical physics, type I string theory is one of five consistent supersymmetric string theories in ten dimensions. It is the only one whose strings are unoriented (both orientations of a string are equivalent) and which contains not only closed strings, but also open strings.
It can be obtained as an orientifold of type IIB string theory, with 32 half-D9-branes added in the vacuum to cancel various anomalies.
At low energies, type I string theory is described by the N=1 supergravity (type I supergravity) in ten dimensions coupled to the SO(32) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The discovery in 1984 by Michael Green and John Schwarz that anomalies in type I string theory cancel sparked the first superstring revolution.
In the 1990s it was realized that type I string theory with the string coupling constant <math>g<math> is equivalent to the SO(32) heterotic string with the coupling <math>1/g<math>. This equivalence is known as S-duality.
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