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Branes are Waves and Monopoles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-29 v2

Abstract

In a recent paper it was shown that fundamental strings are null waves in Double Field Theory. Similarly, membranes are waves in exceptional extended geometry. Here the story is continued by showing how various branes are Kaluza-Klein monopoles of these higher dimensional theories. Examining the specific case of the E7 exceptional extended geometry, we see that all branes are both waves and monopoles. Along the way we discuss the O(d; d) transformation of localized brane solutions not associated to an isometry and how true T-duality emerges in Double Field Theory when the background possesses isometries.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6314,
  title  = {Branes are Waves and Monopoles},
  author = {David S. Berman and Felix J. Rudolph},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6314},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, Latex, v2, typos corrected

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