Generalized complex geometry and T-duality

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zbMATH Open1200.53062arXiv1106.1747MaRDI QIDQ3582285FDOQ3582285


Authors: Gil R. Cavalcanti, Marco Gualtieri Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 September 2010

Abstract: We describe how generalized complex geometry, which interpolates between complex and symplectic geometry, is compatible with T-duality, a relation between quantum field theories discovered by physicists. T-duality relates topologically distinct torus bundles, and prescribes a method for transporting geometrical structures between them. We describe how this relation may be understood as a Courant algebroid isomorphism between the spaces in question. This then allows us to transport Dirac structures, generalized Riemannian metrics, generalized complex and generalized Kahler structures, extending the "Buscher rules" well-known to physicists. Finally, we re-interpret T-duality as a Courant reduction, and explain that T-duality between generalized complex manifolds may be viewed as a generalized complex submanifold (D-brane) of the product, in a way that establishes a direct analogy with the Fourier-Mukai transform.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1747




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