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Starting from a higher Courant bracket associated to exceptional generalized geometry, we provide a systematic derivation of all types of fluxes and their Bianchi identities for four-dimensional compactifications of M-theory. We show that these fluxes may be understood as generalized Wess-Zumino terms in certain topological threebrane sigma-models of AKSZ-type, which relates them to the higher structure of a Lie algebroid up to homotopy. This includes geometric compactifications of M-theory with G-flux and on twisted tori, and also its compactifications with non-geometric Q- and R-fluxes in specific representations of the U-duality group SL(5) in exceptional field theory.
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Chatzistavrakidis, A., Jonke, L., Lüst, D. et al. Fluxes in exceptional field theory and threebrane sigma-models. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 55 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)055
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