T-duality and exceptional generalized geometry through symmetries of dg-manifolds

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Generalized geometries (à la Hitchin) (53D18) Generalizations of fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R65) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22)

Abstract: We study dg-manifolds which are R[2]-bundles over R[1]-bundles over manifolds, we calculate its symmetries, its derived symmetries and we introduce the concept of T-dual dg-manifolds. Within this framework we construct the T-duality map as a degree -1 map between the cohomologies of the T-dual dg-manifolds and we show an explicit isomorphism between the differential graded algebra of the symmetries of the T-dual dg-manifolds. We furthermore show how the algebraic structure underlying B_n generalized geometry could be recovered as derived dg-Leibniz algebra of the fixed points of the T-dual automorphism acting on the symmetries of a self T-dual dg-manifold, and we show how other types of algebraic structures underlying exceptional generalized geometry could be obtained as derived symmetries of certain dg-manifolds.

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This paper exploits the formalism of differential graded (DG) manifolds to recover results on T-duality and exceptional generalized geometry. Recall that a DG manifold is a graded manifold (i.e., a ``manifold whose coordinate functions have non-negative degrees) endowed with a homological vector field \(Q\), i.e., a vector field of degree 1 satisfying \([Q,Q]=0\). An example is \(T[1]M\), for an ordinary manifold \(M\): Its functions are identified with the differential forms on \(M\), and \(Q\) is the de Rham differential. The paper starts with a gentle introduction focussing on DG manifolds of the form \(T[1]M\oplus \mathbb{R}[n]\), where \(\mathbb{R}[n]\) denotes the real line with a coordinate of degree \(n\). Relations to circle bundles over \(M\) and the twisted cohomology of \(M\) are drawn for \(n=1,2\). Then it is remarked that a homological vector field on the DG manifold \((T[1]M\oplus \mathbb{R}[1])\oplus \mathbb{R}[2]\) corresponds to a 3-form and a pair of 2-forms on \(M\) satisfying the same conditions imposed by T-duality of circle bundles over \(M\). The authors define a notion of T-duality in the formalism of DG manifolds, and recover the fact that the twisted cohomologies of T-dual bundles are isomorphic. The infinitesimal symmetries of a DG manifold are studied, among other things in the setting of T-duality, and allow to recover in a natural way a T-duality isomorphism for exact Courant algebroid as well as relations that appear in exceptional generalized geometry.

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