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T-duality through BV Morphisms and BV Pushforwards in Topological Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-09-02 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce the concept of duality between quantum field theories in the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism, which is interpreted either as a BV morphism, the result of dual BV pushforwards or a combination of both. When a BV morphism affects only the target space of a given model, we call it T-duality. To justify this name, we demonstrate how topological aspects of T-duality in string theory such as the relation between curvature and H-flux or isomorphisms of Courant algebroids are equivalent to dualities of topological sigma models in two and three dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1308.1913,
  title  = {T-duality through BV Morphisms and BV Pushforwards in Topological Field Theories},
  author = {Yves Barmaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1913},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

34 pages, a few slight improvements in the definitions