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

Understand

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.