U-dual branes and mixed symmetry tensor fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-01-20 v1
Abstract
We review and explain the relation between U-dual branes in string theory and mixed symmetry tensors of various degrees. In certain cases these mixed symmetry tensors can be related to diverse types of fluxes that play an important role in compactifications of string theory.
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@article{arxiv.1404.7635,
title = {U-dual branes and mixed symmetry tensor fields},
author = {Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis and Fridrik Freyr Gautason},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7635},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages; contribution to the proceedings of the Workshop on Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity, Corfu, Greece, September 8-15, 2013; to appear in Fortsch. Phys