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We study world-volume effective theories of five-branes in type II string theories. We determine the bosonic zero-modes of the NS5-brane, the Kaluza-Klein monopole, the exotic Q5-, R5-branes and a space-filling brane, by direct calculations within the formalism of double field theory (DFT). We show that these zero-modes are Nambu-Goldstone modes associated with the spontaneously broken gauge symmetries in DFT. They are organized into the bosonic part of the six-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = (1) vector and the \( \mathcal{N} \) = (2, 0) tensor multiplets. Among other things, we examine the locally non-geometric R5-branes and space-filling branes that are characterized by the winding space. We also study effective theories of five-branes with string worldsheet instanton corrections.
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Shiozawa, K., Sasaki, S. World-volume effective theories of locally non-geometric branes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 13 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2021)013
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