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T-duality and the exotic chiral de Rham complex

Differential Geometry 2022-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Let ZZ be a principal circle bundle over a base manifold MM equipped with an integral closed 33-form HH called the flux. Let Z^\widehat{Z} be the T-dual circle bundle over MM with flux H^\widehat{H}. Han and Mathai recently constructed the Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-graded space of exotic differential forms Akˉ(Z^)\mathcal{A}^{\bar{k}}(\widehat{Z}). It has an additional Z\mathbb{Z}-grading such that the degree zero component coincides with the space of invariant twisted differential forms Ωkˉ(Z^,H^)T^\Omega^{\bar{k}}(\widehat{Z}, \widehat{H})^{\widehat{\mathbb{T}}}, and it admits a differential that extends the twisted differential dH^=d+H^d_{\widehat{H}} = d + \widehat{H}. The T-duality isomorphism Ωkˉ(Z,H)TΩk+1(Z^,H^)T^\Omega^{\bar{k}}(Z,H)^{\mathbb{T}} \rightarrow \Omega^{\overline{k+1}}(\widehat{Z}, \widehat{H})^{\widehat{\mathbb{T}}} of Bouwknegt, Evslin and Mathai extends to an isomorphism Ωkˉ(Z,H)Ak+1(Z^)\Omega^{\bar{k}}(Z,H) \rightarrow \mathcal{A}^{\overline{k+1}}(\widehat{Z}). In this paper, we introduce the exotic chiral de Rham complex Ach,H^,kˉ(Z^)\mathcal{A}^{\text{ch},\widehat{H},\bar{k}}(\widehat{Z}) which contains Akˉ(Z^)\mathcal{A}^{\bar{k}}(\widehat{Z}) as the weight zero subcomplex. We give an isomorphism Ωch,H,kˉ(Z)Ach,H^,k+1(Z^)\Omega^{\text{ch},H,\bar{k}}(Z) \rightarrow \mathcal{A}^{\text{ch},\widehat{H},\overline{k+1}}(\widehat{Z}) where Ωch,H,kˉ(Z)\Omega^{\text{ch},H,\bar{k}}(Z) denotes the twisted chiral de Rham complex of ZZ, which chiralizes the above T-duality map.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2008.00632,
  title  = {T-duality and the exotic chiral de Rham complex},
  author = {Andrew Linshaw and Varghese Mathai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.00632},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor corrections and expository improvements, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys

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