Rotating string in doubled geometry with generalized isometries
Abstract
In this paper, we first construct a globally well-defined non-geometric background which contains several branes in type II string theory compactified on a 7-torus. One of these branes is called 5^2_2, which is a codimension-2 object and has a non-trivial monodromy given by a T-duality transformation. The geometry near the 5^2_2-brane is shown to approach the non-geometric background constructed in arXiv:1004.2521. We then construct the solution of a fundamental string rotating along a non-trivial cycle in the 5^2_2 background. Although the background is not axisymmetric in the usual sense, we show that it is actually axisymmetric as a doubled geometry by explicitly finding a generalized Killing vector. We perform a generalized coordinate transformation into a system where the generalized isometry is manifest, and show that the winding and momentum charges of the string solution is explicitly conserved in that system.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.5549,
title = {Rotating string in doubled geometry with generalized isometries},
author = {Toru Kikuchi and Takashi Okada and Yuho Sakatani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5549},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
32 pages, 5 figures; v2: typos corrected, to appear in Physical Review D; v3 minor errors fixed, improvements and a reference added to section 4.2