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A Requiem for $AdS_4 \times \mathbb{C} P^3$ Fermionic self-T-duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-01-25 v3

Abstract

Strong evidence for dual superconformal symmetry in N=6\mathcal{N} = 6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory has fueled expectations that the AdS/CFT dual geometry AdS4×CP3AdS_4 \times \mathbb{C} P^3 is self-dual under T-duality. We revisit the problem to identify commuting bosonic and fermionic isometries in a systematic fashion and show that fermionic T-duality, a symmetry originally proposed by Berkovits & Maldacena, inevitably leads to a singularity in the dilaton transformation. We show that TsT deformations commute with fermionic T-duality and comment on T-duality in the corresponding sigma model. Our results rule out self-duality based on fermionic T-duality for AdS4×CP3AdS_4 \times \mathbb{C} P^3 or its TsT deformations, but leave the door open for new possibilities.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03254,
  title  = {A Requiem for $AdS_4 \times \mathbb{C} P^3$ Fermionic self-T-duality},
  author = {E. Ó Colgáin and A. Pittelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03254},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v1 13 pages, 2 column; v2 13pages 2 column, title changed to better reflect content, two expressions deemed challenging to non-native English speakers reworded (outcome of peer review), to appear in PRD; v3 typo in metric in equation (33) corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-22T15:46:32.461Z