Branes in Extended Spacetime: Brane Worldvolume Theory Based on Duality Symmetry
Abstract
We propose a novel approach to the brane worldvolume theory based on the geometry of extended field theories: double field theory and exceptional field theory. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by showing that one can reproduce the conventional bosonic string and membrane actions, and the M5-brane action in the weak-field approximation. At a glance, the proposed 5-brane action without approximation looks different from the known M5-brane actions, but it is consistent with the known nonlinear self-duality relation, and it may provide a new formulation of a single M5-brane action. Actions for exotic branes are also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1607.04265,
title = {Branes in Extended Spacetime: Brane Worldvolume Theory Based on Duality Symmetry},
author = {Yuho Sakatani and Shozo Uehara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.04265},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages; v2: references added, typos corrected; v3: references added, discussions clarified, title expanded, to appear in PRL; v4: minor corrections