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Topological Spherical T-duality -- Dimension change from higher degree $H$-flux

Differential Geometry 2025-01-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Topological Spherical T-duality was introduced by Bouwknegt, Evslin and Mathai in [BEM15] as an extension of topological T-duality from S1S^1-bundles to SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2)-bundles endowed with closed 7-forms. This notion was further extended to sphere bundles by Lind, Sati and Westerland [LSW16] as a duality between S2n1S^{2n-1}-bundles endowed with closed (4n1)(4n-1)-forms. We generalise this relation one step further and define T-duality for S2n1S^{2n-1}-bundles endowed with closed odd forms of arbitrary degree. The degree of the form determines the dimension of the fibers of the dual spaces. We show that TT-duals exist and, as in the previous cases, TT-dual spaces have isomorphic twisted cohomology. We finish by introducing a version of Courant algebroids which is compatible with spherical T-duality.

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@article{arxiv.2405.14054,
  title  = {Topological Spherical T-duality -- Dimension change from higher degree $H$-flux},
  author = {Gil R. Cavalcanti and Bart Heemskerk and Bernardo Uribe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.14054},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages