Double field theory of type II strings

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2011)013zbMATH Open1301.81219arXiv1107.0008MaRDI QIDQ480620FDOQ480620

Barton Zwiebach, Olaf Hohm, Seung Ki Kwak

Publication date: 8 December 2014

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

Abstract: We use double field theory to give a unified description of the low energy limits of type IIA and type IIB superstrings. The Ramond-Ramond potentials fit into spinor representations of the duality group O(D,D) and field-strengths are obtained by acting with the Dirac operator on the potentials. The action, supplemented by a Spin^+(D,D)-covariant self-duality condition on field strengths, reduces to the IIA and IIB theories in different frames. As usual, the NS-NS gravitational variables are described through the generalized metric. Our work suggests that the fundamental gravitational variable is a hermitian element of the group Spin(D,D) whose natural projection to O(D,D) gives the generalized metric.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0008





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