U-dual branes and mixed symmetry tensor fields

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.

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

References in corpus (4)

• Double Field Theory
• String Solitons and T-duality
• NS-branes, source corrected Bianchi identities, and more on backgrounds with non-geometric fluxes
• World-volume Effective Actions of Exotic Five-branes

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• Non-geometric backgrounds in string theory
• Dual Double Field Theory
• Exotic branes in Exceptional Field Theory: the SL(5) duality group
• Tensor Galileons and Gravity
• A unified approach to standard and exotic dualizations through graded geometry
• Non-geometric fluxes and mixed-symmetry potentials