Gauge symmetry enhancing-breaking from a double field theory perspective

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2017)045MaRDI QIDQ1696256zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gerardo Aldazabal, Martín Mayo, E. Andrés, José A. Rosabal

Publication date 14 February 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04427

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic stringsDouble Field Theory (DFT)flux compactificationsstring duality

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)

Abstract: Gauge symmetry enhancing, at specific points of the compactification space, is a distinguished feature of string theory. In this work we discuss the breaking of such symmetries with tools provided by Double Field Theory (DFT). As a main guiding example we discuss the bosonic string compactified on a circle where, at the self dual radio the generic $U(1)imesU(1)$ gauge symmetry becomes enhanced to $SU(2)imesSU(2)$. We show that the enhancing-breaking of the gauge symmetry can be understood through a dependence of gauge structure constants (fluxes in DFT) on moduli. This dependence, in DFT description, is encoded in the generalized tangent frame of the double space. Actually, the explicit T-duality invariant formulation provided by DFT proves to be a helpful ingredient. The link with string theory results is discussed and generalizations to generic tori compactifications are addressed.

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