2014

Strings and Branes are Waves

Berkeley, Joel, Berman, David S., Rudolph, Felix J.

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We examine the equations of motion of double field theory and the duality manifest form of M-theory.

We show the solutions of the equations of motion corresponding to null pp-waves correspond to strings or membranes from the usual spacetime perspective.
A Goldstone mode analysis of the null wave solution in double field theory produces the equations of motion of the duality manifest string.

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