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Type II DFT solutions from Poisson-Lie T-duality/plurality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-24 v4

Abstract

String theory has the T-duality symmetry when the target space has Abelian isometries. A generalization of the T-duality, where the isometry group is non-Abelian, is known as the non-Abelian T-duality, which works well as a solution-generating technique in supergravity. In this paper, we describe the non-Abelian T-duality as a kind of O(D,D) transformation when the isometry group acts without isotropy. We then provide a duality transformation rule for the Ramond-Ramond fields by using the technique of double field theory (DFT). We also study a more general class of solution-generating technique, the Poisson-Lie (PL) T-duality or T-plurality. We describe the PL T-plurality as an O(n,n) transformation and clearly show the covariance of the DFT equations of motion by using the gauged DFT. We further discuss the PL T-plurality with spectator fields, and study an application to the AdS5×_5\timesS5^5 solution. The dilaton puzzle known in the context of the PL T-plurality is resolved with the help of DFT.

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@article{arxiv.1903.12175,
  title  = {Type II DFT solutions from Poisson-Lie T-duality/plurality},
  author = {Yuho Sakatani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12175},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

80 pages + references; v2: clarifications added, appendix B added which shows the covariance under the PL T-plurality with spectators; v3: typos corrected; v4: references added

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