2019/05/20 by Olaf Hohm, Henning Samtleben, Hohm, Olaf +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1905.08312
20 pages, Proceedings of the workshop "Dualities and Generalized Geometries", Corfu Summer Institute 2018, v2: various references added
arxiv created 2019/06/18 · arxiv updated 2019/06/19
Exceptional field theories are the manifestly duality covariant formulations of the target space theories of string/M-theory in the low-energy limit (supergravity) or for certain truncations. These theories feature a rich system of sub-theories, corresponding to different consistent truncations. We review the structure of exceptional field theory and elaborate on various potential applications. In particular, we discuss how exceptional field theories capture some of the the magic supergravity triangles, Hull's *-theories related to timelike dualities, as well as the generalized supergravities related to integrable deformations of AdS/CFT.