A unique connection for Born geometry

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03379-7MaRDI QIDQ2008950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Laurent Freidel, Felix J. Rudolph, David Svoboda

Publication date 26 November 2019

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05992

zbMATH Keywords

T-dualitygeneralized geometryBorn geometrycompactified strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: It has been known for a while that the effective geometrical description of compactified strings on $d$-dimensional target spaces implies a generalization of geometry with a doubling of the sets of tangent space directions. This generalized geometry involves an $O(d,d)$ pairing $eta$ and an $O(2d)$ generalized metric $mathcalH$. More recently it has been shown that in order to include T-duality as an effective symmetry, the generalized geometry also needs to carry a phase space structure or more generally a para-Hermitian structure encoded into a skew-symmetric pairing $omega$. The consistency of string dynamics requires this geometry to satisfy a set of compatibility relations that form what we call a Born geometry. In this work we prove an analogue of the fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry for Born geometry. We show that there exists a unique connection which preserves the Born structure $(eta,omega,mathcalH)$ and which is torsionless in a generalized sense. This resolves a fundamental ambiguity that is present in the double field theory formulation of effective string dynamics.

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