2016

Branes in Extended Spacetime: Brane Worldvolume Theory Based on Duality Symmetry

Sakatani, Yuho, Uehara, Shozo

Understand

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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