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Double field theory for the A/B-models and topological S-duality in generalized geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-12-05 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We study AKSZ-type BV constructions for the topological A- and B-models within a double field theory formulation that incorporates backgrounds with geometric and non-geometric fluxes. We relate them to a Courant sigma-model, on an open membrane, corresponding to a generalized complex structure, which reduces to the A- or B-models on the boundary. We introduce S-duality at the level of the membrane sigma-model based on the generalized complex structure, which exchanges the related AKSZ field theories, and interpret it as topological S-duality of the A- and B-models. Our approach leads to new classes of Courant algebroids associated to (generalized) complex geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1805.11485,
  title  = {Double field theory for the A/B-models and topological S-duality in generalized geometry},
  author = {Zoltan Kokenyesi and Annamaria Sinkovics and Richard J. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11485},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

39 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, reference added