Exotic branes and mixed-symmetry potentials. I. Predictions from Symmetry Ancillary files for arXiv:1907.07177
José J Fernández-Melgarejo (Departamento de Física, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, , 30100 Murcia, Spain); Yuho Sakatani (Department of Physics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, , Kyoto 606-0823, Japan); Shozo Uehara (Department of Physics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, , Kyoto 606-0823, Japan)
Abstract Type II string theory or M-theory contains a broad spectrum of gauge potentials. In addition to the standard -form potentials, various mixed-symmetry potentials have been predicted, which may couple to exotic branes with non-standard tensions. Together with -forms, mixed-symmetry potentials turn out to be essential to build the multiplets of the -duality symmetry in each dimension. In this paper, we systematically determine the set of mixed-symmetry potentials and exotic branes on the basis of the conjecture. We also study the decompositions of -duality multiplets into -duality multiplets and determine which mixed-symmetry tensors are contained in each of the -/-duality multiplets.