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U-Duality of Born-Infeld on the Noncommutative Two-Torus

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v3

Abstract

We discuss Born-Infeld on the noncommutative two-torus as a description of compactified string theory. We show that the resulting theory, including the fluctuations, is manifestly invariant under the T-duality group SO(2,2;Z). The BPS mass even has a full SL(3,Z)xSL(2,Z) U-duality symmetry. The direct identification of the noncommutative parameter \theta with the B-field modulus however seems to be problematic at finite volume.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9810116,
  title  = {U-Duality of Born-Infeld on the Noncommutative Two-Torus},
  author = {C. Hofman and E. Verlinde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9810116},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

19 pages, LaTeX. Reference and discussion on small volume added, errors corrected