On the Riemann tensor in double field theory

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DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2012)126zbMATH Open1348.83080arXiv1112.5296OpenAlexW3099228265MaRDI QIDQ339212FDOQ339212


Authors: Olaf Hohm, Barton Zwiebach Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

Abstract: Double field theory provides T-duality covariant generalized tensors that are natural extensions of the scalar and Ricci curvatures of Riemannian geometry. We search for a similar extension of the Riemann curvature tensor by developing a geometry based on the generalized metric and the dilaton. We find a duality covariant Riemann tensor whose contractions give the Ricci and scalar curvatures, but that is not fully determined in terms of the physical fields. This suggests that alpha' corrections to the effective action require alpha' corrections to T-duality transformations and/or generalized diffeomorphisms. Further evidence to this effect is found by an additional computation that shows that there is no T-duality invariant four-derivative object built from the generalized metric and the dilaton that reduces to the square of the Riemann tensor.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5296




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