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A QP perspective on topology change in Poisson-Lie T-duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-27 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We describe topological T-duality and Poisson-Lie T-duality in terms of QP (differential graded symplectic) manifolds and their canonical transformations. Duality is mediated by a QP-manifold on doubled non-abelian "correspondence" space, from which we can perform mutually dual symplectic reductions, where certain canonical transformations play a vital role. In the presence of spectator coordinates, we show how the introduction of "bibundle" structure on correspondence space realises changes in the global fibration structure under Poisson-Lie duality. Our approach can be directly translated to the worldsheet to derive dual string current algebras. Finally, the canonical transformations appearing in our reduction procedure naturally suggest a Fourier-Mukai integral transformation for Poisson-Lie T-duality.

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@article{arxiv.2110.08179,
  title  = {A QP perspective on topology change in Poisson-Lie T-duality},
  author = {Alex S. Arvanitakis and Chris D. A. Blair and Daniel C. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08179},
  year   = {2021}
}

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40 pages. v2: references added