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Geometries with twisted spheres and non-abelian T-dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-19 v3

Abstract

Spectral flow in two-dimensional field theories is known to correspond to geometrical twisting between two circles in the gravity dual. We generalize this operation to the geometries which have SO(k+1) x SO(k+1) isometries with k>1 and perform various non-abelian T-dualities of the resulting twisted backgrounds. Combination of non-abelian twists and dualities leads to a new solution generating technique in supergravity, and we apply it to the geometries dual to supersymmetric states in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory.

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@article{arxiv.2311.14285,
  title  = {Geometries with twisted spheres and non-abelian T-dualities},
  author = {Oleg Lunin and Parita Shah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.14285},
  year   = {2024}
}

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56 pages. v3: references added