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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)

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