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Non-Geometric Fluxes in Supergravity and Double Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we propose ten-dimensional realizations of the non-geometric fluxes Q and R. In particular, they appear in the NSNS Lagrangian after performing a field redefinition that takes the form of a T-duality transformation. Double field theory simplifies the computation of the field redefinition significantly, and also completes the higher-dimensional picture by providing a geometrical role for the non-geometric fluxes once the winding derivatives are taken into account. The relation to four-dimensional gauged supergravities, together with the global obstructions of non-geometry, are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1204.1979,
  title  = {Non-Geometric Fluxes in Supergravity and Double Field Theory},
  author = {David Andriot and Olaf Hohm and Magdalena Larfors and Dieter Lust and Peter Patalong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1979},
  year   = {2015}
}

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43 pages