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T-Duality from super Lie n-algebra cocycles for super p-branes

Mathematical Physics 2019-06-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Topology K-Theory and Homology math.MP

Abstract

We compute the LL_\infty-theoretic dimensional reduction of the F1/Dpp-brane super LL_\infty-cocycles with coefficients in rationalized twisted K-theory from the 10d type IIA and type IIB super Lie algebras down to 9d. We show that the two resulting coefficient LL_\infty-algebras are naturally related by an LL_\infty-isomorphism which we find to act on the super pp-brane cocycles by the infinitesimal version of the rules of topological T-duality and inducing an isomorphism between K0K^0 and K1K^1, rationally. In particular this is a derivation of the Buscher rules for RR-fields (Hori's formula) from first principles. Moreover, we show that these LL_\infty-algebras are the homotopy quotients of the RR-charge coefficients by the "T-duality Lie 2-algebra". We find that the induced LL_\infty-extension is a gerby extension of a 9+(1+1) dimensional (i.e. "doubled") T-duality correspondence super-spacetime, which serves as a local model for T-folds. We observe that this still extends, via the D0-brane cocycle of its type IIA factor, to a 10+(1+1)-dimensional super Lie algebra. Finally we observe that this satisfies expected properties of a local model space for F-theory elliptic fibrations.

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@article{arxiv.1611.06536,
  title  = {T-Duality from super Lie n-algebra cocycles for super p-branes},
  author = {Domenico Fiorenza and Hisham Sati and Urs Schreiber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06536},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

44 pages; v2: added more discussion of double dimensional reduction via cyclic L-infinity cohomology; v3: added derivation of Buscher rules for RR-fields, expanded on role of curved L-infinity algebras in double dimensional reduction