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T-duality and closed string non-commutative (doubled) geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-02-25 v3

Abstract

We provide some evidence that closed string coordinates will become non-commutative turning on H-field flux background in closed string compactifications. This is in analogy to open string non-commutativity on the world volume of D-branes with B- and F-field background. The class of 3-dimensional backgrounds we are studying are twisted tori (fibrations of a 2-torus over a circle) and the their T-dual H-field, 3-form flux backgrounds (T-folds). The spatial non-commutativity arises due to the non-trivial monodromies of the toroidal Kahler resp. complex structure moduli fields, when going around the closed string along the circle direction. In addition we study closed string non-commutativity in the context of doubled geometry, where we argue that in general a non-commutative closed string background is T-dual to a commutative closed string background and vice versa. Finally, in analogy to open string boundary conditions, we also argue that closed string momentum and winding modes define in some sense D-branes in closed string doubled geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1010.1361,
  title  = {T-duality and closed string non-commutative (doubled) geometry},
  author = {Dieter Lust},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.1361},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

31 pages, references added, extended version contains new sections 3.3., 3.4 and 4

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