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Ramond-Ramond Fields, Cohomology and Non-Geometric Fluxes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-11-08 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We consider compactifications of type II string theory in which a d-dimensional torus is fibered over a base X. In string theory, the transition functions of this fibration need not be simply diffeomorphisms of T^d but can involve elements of the T-duality group Spin(d,d,Z). We precisely define the notion of a T-fold with NSNS flux. Given such a T-fold, we define the Z_2-graded cohomology theory describing the unquantized RR field strengths and discuss how the data of a T-fold can be interpreted in terms of generalized NSNS fluxes and the twisted differential of Shelton-Taylor-Wecht.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5158,
  title  = {Ramond-Ramond Fields, Cohomology and Non-Geometric Fluxes},
  author = {Aaron Bergman and Daniel Robbins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5158},
  year   = {2007}
}

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35 pages, uses utarticle.cls, v2: minor changes and references added