Generalized Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell theories and locally geometric U-folds

DOI10.1142/S0129055X18500125MaRDI QIDQ4569654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Calin-Iuliu Lazaroiu, C. S. Shahbazi

Publication date 27 June 2018

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05872

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{U}\)-foldsdifferential geometrystring theory dualitiessupergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We give a global formulation of the coupling of four-dimensional scalar sigma models to Abelian gauge fields for the generalized situation when the "duality structure" of the Abelian gauge theory is described by a flat symplectic vector bundle $(mathcalS,D,omega)$ defined over the scalar manifold $mathcalM$. The construction uses a taming of $(mathcalS,omega)$, which encodes globally the inverse gauge couplings and theta angles of the "twisted" Abelian gauge theory in a manner that makes no use of duality frames. We show that global solutions of the equations of motion of such models give classical locally geometric U-folds. We also describe the groups of duality transformations and scalar-electromagnetic symmetries arising in such models, which involve lifting isometries of $mathcalM$ to a particular class of flat automorphisms of the bundle $mathcalS$ and hence differ from expectations based on local analysis. The appropriate version of the Dirac quantization condition involves a discrete local system defined over $mathcalM$ and gives rise to a smooth bundle of polarized Abelian varieties, endowed with a flat symplectic connection. This shows that a generalization of part of the mathematical structure familiar from $mathcalN=2$ supergravity is already present in such purely bosonic models, without any coupling to fermions and hence without any supersymmetry.

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