T-Duality via Gerby Geometry and Reductions
Differential Geometry
2015-06-16 v2 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We consider topological T-duality of torus bundles equipped with S^{1}-gerbes. We show how a geometry on the gerbe determines a reduction of its band to the subsheaf of S^{1}-valued functions which are constant along the torus fibres. We observe that such a reduction is exactly the additional datum needed for the construction of a T-dual pair. We illustrate the theory by working out the example of the canonical lifting gerbe on a compact Lie group which is a torus bundles over the associated flag manifold. It was a recent observation of Daenzer and van Erp (arXiv1211.0763) that for certain compact Lie groups and a particular choice of the gerbe, the T-dual torus bundle is given by the Langlands dual group.
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@article{arxiv.1305.6050,
title = {T-Duality via Gerby Geometry and Reductions},
author = {Ulrich Bunke and Thomas Nikolaus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6050},
year = {2015}
}
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57 pages (revised version)