World-volume Effective Actions of Exotic Five-branes

TL;DR

This paper constructs covariant world-volume effective actions for exotic five-branes in type IIA and IIB string theories, revealing their supersymmetric multiplet structures and duality relations.

Contribution

It provides the first fully space-time covariant effective actions for $5^2_2$-branes and extends the analysis to the $5^2_3$-brane via S-duality, including discussions on other string theories.

Findings

Effective actions are governed by specific supersymmetric multiplets.

S-duality relates the $5^2_2$-brane to the $5^2_3$-brane.

Additional insights into exotic branes in various string theories.

Abstract

We construct world-volume effective actions of exotic $5^2_2$-branes in type IIA and IIB string theories. The effective actions are given in fully space-time covariant forms with two Killing vectors associated with background isometries. The effective theories are governed by the six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ tensor multiplet and $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ vector multiplet, respectively. Performing the S-duality transformation to the $5^2_2$-brane effective action in type IIB string theory, we also work out the world-volume action of the $5^2_3$-brane. We discuss some additional issues relevant to the exotic five-branes in type I and heterotic string theories.