Topology change from (heterotic) Narain T-duality

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.05.021MaRDI QIDQ994617zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jarah Evslin, Ruben Minasian

Publication date 13 September 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3866

zbMATH Keywords

global tadpole condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Fibered categories (18D30) Abstract manifolds and fiber bundles (category-theoretic aspects) (18F15)

Abstract: We consider Narain T-duality on a nontrivially fibered n-torus bundle in the presence of a topologically nontrivial NS H flux. The action of the duality group on the topology and H flux of the corresponding type II and heterotic string backgrounds is determined. The topology change is specialized to the case of supersymmetric T^2-fibered torsional string backgrounds with nontrivial H flux. We prove that it preserves the global tadpole condition in the total space as well as on the base of the torus fibration. We find that some of these T-dualities exchange half of the field strength of an unbroken U(1) gauge symmetry with the anti-selfdual part of the curvature of a physical circle fibration. We verify that such T-dualities indeed exchange the supersymmetry condition for the circle bundle with that of the gauge bundle.

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