{
  "id": "1806.00430",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-06-01T16:36:20.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-06-01T16:36:20.000Z",
  "title": "Exotic Branes in Exceptional Field Theory: $E_{7(7)}$ and Beyond",
  "authors": [
    "David S. Berman",
    "Edvard T. Musaev",
    "Ray Otsuki"
  ],
  "comment": "73 pages Latex",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "In recent years, it has been widely argued that the duality transformations of string and M-theory naturally imply the existence of so-called `exotic branes'---low codimension objects with highly non-perturbative tensions, scaling as $g_s^{\\alpha}$ for $\\alpha \\leq -3$. We argue that their intimate link with these duality transformations make them an ideal object of study using the general framework of Double Field Theory (DFT) and Exceptional Field Theory (EFT)---collectively referred to as ExFT. Parallel to the theme of dualities, we also stress that these theories unify known solutions in string- and M-theory into a single solution under ExFT. We argue that not only is there a natural unifying description of the lowest codimension objects, many of these exotic states require this formalism as a consistent supergravity description does not exist.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-06-01T16:36:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "exceptional field theory",
      "exotic branes",
      "duality transformations",
      "consistent supergravity description",
      "lowest codimension objects"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 73,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}