Double field formulation of Yang-Mills theory
Abstract
Based on our previous work on the differential geometry for the closed string double field theory, we construct a Yang-Mills action which is covariant under O(D,D) T-duality rotation and invariant under three-types of gauge transformations: non-Abelian Yang-Mills, diffeomorphism and one-form gauge symmetries. In double field formulation, in a manifestly covariant manner our action couples a single O(D,D) vector potential to the closed string double field theory. In terms of undoubled component fields, it couples a usual Yang-Mills gauge field to an additional one-form field and also to the closed string background fields which consist of a dilaton, graviton and a two-form gauge field. Our resulting action resembles a twisted Yang-Mills action.
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@article{arxiv.1102.0419,
title = {Double field formulation of Yang-Mills theory},
author = {Imtak Jeon and Kanghoon Lee and Jeong-Hyuck Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0419},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
1+14 pages, no figure; v2 refs added. To appear in Physics Letters B