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Explicitly connecting T and Buscher dualities in String Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Buscher duality is a sigma-model duality, implemented by transformation of the target space. Not only in the case of a flat target space, but in a general background, should the Buscher duality reduce to the T-duality familiar in the flat-space string context. We exhibit this reduction explicitly using a pp-wave background as a tractable example. String theory is solved in a compactified Nappi-Witten background and the Buscher-dual theory is likewise solved. The Hamiltonian is computed in both cases, and the results are verified to be T-dual.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0505061,
  title  = {Explicitly connecting T and Buscher dualities in String Theory},
  author = {P. Matlock and R. Parthasarathy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0505061},
  year   = {2009}
}

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