T-duality and U-duality in toroidally compactified strings

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00614-7zbMATH Open0953.81084WikidataQ58666321 ScholiaQ58666321MaRDI QIDQ1569633FDOQ1569633

Authors: Hong Lü, Christopher N. Pope 

Publication date: 3 July 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the issue of T-duality and U-duality symmetries in the toroidally-compactified type IIA string. It is customary to take as a starting point the dimensionally-reduced maximal supergravity theories, with certain field strengths dualised such that the classical theory exhibits a global $E_{n(n)}$ symmetry, where n=11-D in D dimensions. A discrete subgroup then becomes the conjectured U-duality group. In dimensions Dle 6, these necessary dualisations include NS-NS fields, whose potentials, rather than merely their field strengths, appear explicitly in the couplings to the string worldsheet. Thus the usually-stated U-duality symmetries act non-locally on the fundamental fields of perturbative string theory. At least at the perturbative level, it seems to be more appropriate to consider the symmetries of the versions of the lower-dimensional supergravities in which no dualisations of NS-NS fields are required, although dualisations of the R-R fields are permissible since these couple to the string through their field strengths. Taking this viewpoint, the usual T-duality groups survive unscathed, as one would hope since T-duality is a perturbative symmetry, but the U-duality groups are modified in Dle 6.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701177

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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