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Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds

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arxiv 1004.2521 v2 pith:JR3GXEVJ submitted 2010-04-14 hep-th

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keywords exoticbranesbackgroundschargesdimensionshigherm-theorynon-geometric
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When string/M-theory is compactified to lower dimensions, the U-duality symmetry predicts so-called exotic branes whose higher dimensional origin cannot be explained by the standard string/M-theory branes. We argue that exotic branes can be understood in higher dimensions as non-geometric backgrounds or U-folds, and that they are important for the physics of systems which originally contain no exotic charges, since the supertube effect generically produces such exotic charges. We discuss the implications of exotic backgrounds for black hole microstate (non-)geometries.

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