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$O(25,25)$ symmetry of bosonic string theory at order $\alpha'^2$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-01 v2

Abstract

It has been recently observed that the imposition of the O(1,1)O(1,1) symmetry on the circle reduction of the classical effective action of string theory, can fix the effective action of the bosonic string theory at order α2\alpha'^2, up to an overall factor. In this paper, we use the cosmological reduction on the action and show that, up to one-dimensional field redefinitions and total derivative terms, it can be written in the O(25,25)O(25,25)-invariant form proposed by Hohm and Zwiebach.

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@article{arxiv.2107.04796,
  title  = {$O(25,25)$ symmetry of bosonic string theory at order $\alpha'^2$},
  author = {Mohammad R. Garousi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04796},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages, Latex file, no figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2105.07598; v2:it appears in EPJC