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Double supergeometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-07-20 v2

Abstract

A geometry of superspace corresponding to double field theory is developed, with type II supergravity in D=10 as the main example. The formalism is based on an orthosymplectic extension OSp(d,d|2s) of the continuous T-duality group. Covariance under generalised super-diffeomorphisms is manifest. Ordinary superspace is obtained as a solution of the orthosymplectic section condition. A systematic study of curved superspace Bianchi identities is performed, and a relation to a double pure spinor superfield cohomology is established. A Ramond-Ramond superfield is constructed as an infinite-dimensional orthosymplectic spinor. Such objects in minimal orbits under the OSp supergroup ("pure spinors") define super-sections.

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@article{arxiv.1603.04684,
  title  = {Double supergeometry},
  author = {Martin Cederwall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04684},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

28 pp., plain tex. v2: refs. added