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Exploring T-Duality for Self-Dual Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-11-16 v1

Abstract

We study avatars of T-duality within Sen's formalism for self-dual field strengths in various dimensions. This formalism is shown to naturally accommodate the T-duality relation between Type IIA/IIB theories when compactified on a circle without the need for imposing the self-duality constraint by hand, as is usually done. We also continue our study of this formalism on two-dimensional target spacetimes and initiate its study as a worldsheet theory. In particular, we show that Sen's action provides a natural worldsheet-based understanding of twisted and asymmetrically twisted strings. Finally, we show that the TTˉ\mathrm{T}\bar{\mathrm{T}}-deformed theory of left- and right-chiral bosons described in Sen's formalism possesses a scaling limit that is related via field-theoretic T-duality to a recently studied integrable deformation of quantum mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.2311.09153,
  title  = {Exploring T-Duality for Self-Dual Fields},
  author = {Subhroneel Chakrabarti and Madhusudhan Raman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09153},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages, 2 figures

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