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

Abstract

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.

6 pages; v2: references added, typos corrected; v3: references added, discussions clarified, title expanded, to appear in PRL; v4: minor corrections

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• Double Field Theory
• Doubled Geometry and T-Folds
• The gauge algebra of double field theory and Courant brackets
• Generalized Geometry and M theory
• Finite Gauge Transformations and Geometry in Double Field Theory
• Strings and Branes are Waves
• Exotic branes and non-geometric fluxes
• D-branes in Generalized Geometry and Dirac-Born-Infeld Action
• E(7(7)) and d=11 supergravity

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