Patching DFT, T-duality and gerbes

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)074MaRDI QIDQ680692zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. S. Howe, George Papadopoulos

Publication date 23 January 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07968

zbMATH Keywords

differential and algebraic geometrystring dualitysuperstrings and heterotic stringsDouble Field Theory (DFT)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We clarify the role of the dual coordinates as described from the perspectives of the Buscher T-duality rules and Double Field Theory. We show that the T-duality angular dual coordinates cannot be identified with Double Field Theory dual coordinates in any of the proposals that have been made in the literature for patching the doubled spaces. In particular, we show with explicit examples that the T-duality angular dual coordinates can have non-trivial transition functions over a spacetime and that their identification with the Double Field Theory dual coordinates is in conflict with proposals in which the latter remain inert under the patching of the B-field. We then demonstrate that the Double Field Theory coordinates can be identified with some C-space coordinates and that the T-dual spaces of a spacetime are subspaces of the gerbe in C-space. The construction provides a description of both the local $O(d,d)$ symmetry and the T-dual spaces of spacetime.

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