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Strings, Branes and the Self-dual Solutions of Exceptional Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-29 v2

Abstract

It has been shown that membranes and fivebranes are wave-like or monopole-like solutions in some higher dimensional theory. Here the picture is completed by combining the wave and monopole solutions into a single solution of Exceptional Field Theory. This solution solves the twisted self-duality constraint. The 1/2 BPS brane spectrum, consisting of fundamental, solitonic and Dirichlet branes, in ten- and eleven-dimensional supergravity may all be extracted from this single solution of Exceptional Field Theory. The solution's properties such as the singularity structure and its asymptotic behaviour near the core and at infinity are investigated.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2768,
  title  = {Strings, Branes and the Self-dual Solutions of Exceptional Field Theory},
  author = {David S. Berman and Felix J. Rudolph},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2768},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

34 pages LaTeX, v2 inclusion of brane bound states, typos corrected, some clarifications