Comments on double field theory and diffeomorphisms

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Publication:303379

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2013)098zbMATH Open1342.81464arXiv1304.5946OpenAlexW3102387314MaRDI QIDQ303379FDOQ303379


Authors: Jeong-Hyuck Park Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: As the theory is subject to a section condition, coordinates in double field theory do not represent physical points in an injective manner. We argue that a physical point should be rather one-to-one identified with a `gauge orbit' in the coordinate space. The diffeomorphism symmetry then implies an invariance under arbitrary reparametrizations of the gauge orbits. Within this generalized sense of diffeomorphism, we show that a recently proposed tensorial transformation rule for finite coordinate transformations is actually (i) consistent with the standard exponential map, and further (ii) compatible with the full covariance of the `semi-covariant' derivatives and curvatures after projectors are properly imposed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5946




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