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T-duality transformations for the NS5-brane along angular directions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-04 v2

Abstract

In this note we study T-duality transformations for the NS5-brane and its orbifolds along angular directions. We identify a geometric charge for these configurations and show that it is interchanged with the H-flux under T-duality. We furthermore perform a supersymmetry analysis and find that T-duality can break supersymmetry, in agreement with earlier results in the literature. We contrast our findings to compactifications of the NS5-brane on tori, which have vanishing geometric charge and for which T-duality transformations along the compact directions preserve supersymmetry. This shows that the uncompactified NS5-brane and the compactified-and-smeared solution have different properties and behave differently under T-duality.

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@article{arxiv.1712.05750,
  title  = {T-duality transformations for the NS5-brane along angular directions},
  author = {Erik Plauschinn and Valentí Vall Camell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05750},
  year   = {2018}
}

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39 pages; v2: references added, published version

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